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

Spent flowers, young fruit, and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, Organ Pipes National Park near Melbourne, vic

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

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

Common Name

Mealy Saltbush, Fragrant Saltbush

Family

Chenopodiaceae

Notes

Shrub to 2m tall.  Leaves mostly opposite each other, 1.5-4cm long, flat, scurfy, sometimes with pointed basal lobes, and pointed tips.  Male and female flowers on different plants.  Flowers fragrant, tiny (less than 3mm across), blue grey or yellow grey on the outside, red on the inside, in panicles.  Fruit red.  Rare Vic.

Description in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 278

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