Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eremophila mitchellii
Common name
Budda, False Sandalwood
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Variety of habitats including woodland and along streams. Western Slopes.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 10 m tall. Regenerates from the roots after disturbance. Fruit dry. Bark finely flaky scaly. Stems hairless, often resinous. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 2-6 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, hairless, somewhat sticky, usually with a hooked tip. Flowers white to cream, pinkish, or brown, 10–18 mm long, tubular, spotted inside the tube, the tube bell-shaped with five uneven lobes, in clusters of 2-3 flowers. Flowering: spring and sometimes autumn.
Family was Myoporaceae.
PlantNET description:
http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eremophila~mitchellii (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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