Common Name

Turpentine; Narrow-Leaf Emu-bush; Turpentine Bush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub to 4m tall. Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, 1-5.2cm long, 0.5-3mm wide, flat to almost cylindrical, sticky, warty, often with a hooked point, tips occasionally with a straight point or blunt. Flowers mauve to deep purplish pink, rarely white, tubular, with five lobes, borne singly, sometimes in pairs, at the bases of the leaves. Family Myoporaceae in SA. Endangered 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 pages 610-611

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