Description: Eremophila 'Crazy Race'
Photographer: R Wait
Photographer: R Wait
Description: Eremophila 'Crazy Race'
Photographer: R Wait
Photographer: R Wait
Eremophila 'Crazy Race'
- File Number
- 1693
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 1725
- Registration Date
- 07/05/2022
- Application Received
- 17/03/2021
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Eremophila 'Crazy Race'
- Origin
- Open pollination Presumed parent Eremophila glabra, Eremophila racemosa.
- Characteristics
- A shrub to 1.5m high by 2m wide with greenish leaves 15-25mm long by 5-8mm wide; medium sized corolla is bright pink. Flowers in spring or after new growth.
- Cultivation
- Grows in most soils; tolerates most frosts; can handle some shade but does best in full sun. Can be hard pruned; tip pruning will help maintain shape.
- Publication
- Growing Eremophila, R. Wait, 2021. p208
- Colour Coding
- RHS 1995 Leaves (upper surface): Green Group 137A; Flowers: Red-Purple Group 60A;base of fl Yellow Orange Group 16D; buds Greyed Yellow Group 162A
- Propagation
- Cuttings, grafting on myoporum rootstocks
- Applicant Name
- Russell Wait, Riddells Creek, Victoria, 2222
- Uses
- As part of a shrubbery, or as a feature plant. Attracts nectar feeding birds
- Availability
- Russell Wait who can be contacted by email: russwait35@gmail.com
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -