Description: Eremophila 'Lemon Meringue'
Photographer: Lyndal Thorburn
Photographer: Lyndal Thorburn
Description: Eremophila 'Lemon Meringue'
Photographer: Lyndal Thorburn
Photographer: Lyndal Thorburn
Eremophila 'Lemon Meringue'
- File Number
- 1684
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 1684
- Registration Date
- 19/11/2021
- Application Received
- 21/02/2021
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Eremophila 'Lemon Meringue'
- Origin
- Sport branch on plant of Eremophila ‘Fairy Floss’ growing in Canberra, ACT. The source plant threw a stem with some cream flowers and yellow buds
- Characteristics
- Dense upright shrub, 2m (h) x 1.5m-2m (w), leaves: dark green, flowers: buds - yellow, petals - cream, 25-30mm x 10mm on a long pedicel. Flowers year round with a burst in spring and after rain. The source ‘Fairy Floss’ plant is thought to be a hybrid between Eremophila maculata ssp brevifolia x E. racemosa. White hairs in the corolla throat are prominent and distinctive
- Cultivation
- Eremophila ‘Lemon Meringue’ flowers year-round. It responds well to pruning which makes it an attractive dense shrub with spectacular flowering displays.
- Publication
- Growing Eremophila, R. Wait, 2021. p271;
- Colour Coding
- Colour Coding RHS 1995 Leaves: Green Group 147A Petals: Yellow Green Group 150D Buds: Yellow Green Group 153C
- Propagation
- Cuttings, grating on myoporum rootstocks
- Applicant Name
- Lyndal Thorburn, Queanbeyan NSW, 2621
- Uses
- Suitable for use as a feature plant; insect attractor
- Availability
- ANPS Canberra
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -