Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Rosemary Purdie, Mildura, Vic

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Eurah; Bignonia Emu-Bush; Creek Wilga; Gooramurra

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub or small tree to 7m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-20cm long,  2-14mm wide, linear, cylindrical to flat, somewhat sticky, hairless, margins entire or occasionally toothed, with straight points,.  Flowers cream tinged pink or brown, yellowish, or red.  Flowers tubular, with five lobes, solitary, rarely paired, at the bases of the leaves.  Family Myoporaceae in SA.  Vulnerable Vic.  Threatened list Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 609

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eremophila~bignoniiflora