Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Myoporum insulare
Common name
Boobialla, Common boobialla
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Where found
Heath, cliffs, rocky areas, and dunes. Coastal. Rarely in the ranges.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 11 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark coarsely fissured, corky. Stems hairless, smooth to obscurely warty, resinous. Leaves alternating up the stems, scattered, 3–9 cm long, 7–22 mm wide, thick and fleshy, margins entire or finely toothed towards the tips, tips pointed to broad-pointed, surfaces hairless, the same colour on each side. Flowers 6–8 mm in diameter, white, with hairs in the throat, usually spotted purplish inside, with a bell-shaped tube and 5 lobes. Sepals with obvious translucent membranous margins. Flowers in clusters of 3-8 flowers. Fruit mauve to bluish-purple or black, smooth. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.
Family was Myoporaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Myoporum~insulare (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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