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

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

Fruit. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, near Wanaaring, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Ellengowan Poison-Bush; Turkeybush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub to 4m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 2-5.5cm long, 3-8mm wide, flat, hairless, with a hooked point.  Male and female flowers on different plants, sometimes flowers bisexual.  Flowers white, tubular, with five lobes, borne singly or in groups of 2-4 on short stalks arising from  the bases of the leaves.  Fruit yellow to brown or black. Family Myoporaceae in SA.

Description and photo (as Myoporum deserti) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 615.

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