Description: Eremophila racemosa 'Fairy Floss'
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Eremophila racemosa 'Fairy Floss'
- File Number
- 1686
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 1756
- Registration Date
- 07/05/2022
- Application Received
- 06/03/2021
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Eremophila racemosa 'Fairy Floss'
- Origin
- Chance seedling in garden of Tom Loffler at Waikerie in the early 1980s, under a plant of E maculata ssp. brevifolia.
- Characteristics
- Dense upright shrub, 2m (h) x 1.5m-2m (w), leaves: grey-green, flowers: buds - orange, petals - pink, 25-30mm x 10mm on a long pedicel. Flowers year round with a burst in spring and after rain. 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 ‘Fairy Floss’ flowers year round. It responds well to pruning which makes it an attractive dense shrub with spectacular flowering displays. It has been propagated vegetatively through several generations and is frost hardy.
- Publication
- Growing Eremophila, R. Wait, 2021. p271; Hort Journal Australia August 2019 Vol 12, Issue 2, Page 40
- Colour Coding
- RHS 1995 Leaves (upper surface): Green Group 147A; Flowers: Greyed Purple Group 186B
- Propagation
- Cuttings, grating on myoporum rootstocks
- Applicant Name
- Lyndal Thorburn, Queanbeyan NSW, 2621
- Uses
- Suitable for use as a feature plant
- Availability
- Specialist native nurseries
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -