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SILVER TURKEY BUSH
Eremophila bowmanii
Plant Family
Myoporaceae
Alternative Common Names
bowman’s poverty bush, flannel bush, turkey bush.
Silver-grey shrub to 1.5m high. Covered with soft woolly hairs.
Leaves - alternate, silvery to blue-green, 10-40mm long, 1-4mm wide.
Flowers - blue or lavender, borne singly, on straight or somewhat “S” shaped stalks in the leaf axils. Each flower 10-25mm long, bell-shaped with 5 broad unequal lobes, sparsely downy outside, bearded inside.
Fruit - tapering ovoid drupe, hairless and almost dry.
Flowering winter-summer.
Habitat
Sandplains in mulga communities; red earths in bimble box communities.
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