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

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

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

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, planted near the Tarrara gate, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowering shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Spotted Fuchsia, Spotted Fuschia-Bush

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2.5m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.4-4.5cm long, 2-18mm wide, flat to linear, hairless or very sparsely hairy, sometimes sticky.  Flowers red, orange, pink, or yellow, tubular, 2-lipped, with five lobes, solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Fruit initially succulent, becoming dry when ripe. Family Myoporaceae in SA.  Rare Vic.

Description and photo (as Eremophila maculata) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 606-607

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