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

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flower bud, young fruit, and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Bark. Photo: Michelle Brown, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Michelle Brown, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Weeping Emu Bush; Berrigan; Emu-bush; Long-leaved Eremophila

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 8m tall.  Leaves alternating along the stem, 3-20cm long, 3-14mm wide, flat, hairy, often becoming hairless, sticky, with smooth edges, usually with a hooked tip.  Flowers pinkish to reddish brown, tubular, 2-lipped, with five lobes, borne singly or in groups of 2-5 at the bases of the leaves.  Fruit blackish purple.  Family is Myoporaceae in SA.

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 608

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