Common Name: Weeping Emubush
Botanical Name: Eremophila longifolia
Family: MYOPORACEAE
Description:
Dull grey-green shrub to small rough-barked tree, 2-5 m high, with drooping branchlets and leaves. Alternate, long, linear-lanceolate, greyish-green, pendulous, 5-20 cm long by 4-8 mm wide, single central vein, tapering to a hooked tip. Pinkish to red-brown, tubular flowers, with projecting stamens, spotted inside, to 3 cm long, solitary or in groups of 2-3 in leaf axil. Variable, throughout the year. Globular drupe, 5-10 mm long, flesh turning from a greenish-yellow to a black-purple (mature) over a woody nut. Summer to early autumn (January to March).
Dull grey-green shrub to small rough-barked tree, 2-5 m high, with drooping branchlets and leaves. Alternate, long, linear-lanceolate, greyish-green, pendulous, 5-20 cm long by 4-8 mm wide, single central vein, tapering to a hooked tip. Pinkish to red-brown, tubular flowers, with projecting stamens, spotted inside, to 3 cm long, solitary or in groups of 2-3 in leaf axil. Variable, throughout the year. Globular drupe, 5-10 mm long, flesh turning from a greenish-yellow to a black-purple (mature) over a woody nut. Summer to early autumn (January to March).
Natural Distribution:
Distributed throughout lower rainfall regions in most mainland agricultural districts of SA (absent from South-East). Extends into all mainland States and Territories. Common to mallee and northern arid areas.
Distributed throughout lower rainfall regions in most mainland agricultural districts of SA (absent from South-East). Extends into all mainland States and Territories. Common to mallee and northern arid areas.
Notes:
Often found in clumps due to root suckering. Fruits regularly consumed by emus. Commonly propagated from cuttings.
Often found in clumps due to root suckering. Fruits regularly consumed by emus. Commonly propagated from cuttings.
