Turkey-bush: Structure

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Mints (Lamiales)

Family:

Figwort (Scrophulariaceae)

Species:

Turkey-bush (Eremophila deserti)

This Photo:

Structure

Synonym:

Myoporum deserti

Other names:

Carrot Bush, Dogwood, Pencil Bush, Poison Bush, Turkeybush or Turkish Bush

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
We thought it was a Myoporum based on the leaves, structure & flowers.
But the fruits were eremophila like.
The synonym shows even the experts weren't sure

Leaves are long, thin, entire with a typical myoporum hook on the end.
Flowers are white with 5 petals on short tubes at the end of a stalk. Up to 3 stalks come from the leaf axis and droop down / weep, but generally there was only one flower per leaf.

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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