Description: Eremophila 'Fruit Salad'
Photographer: Lyndal Thorburn
Photographer: Lyndal Thorburn
Eremophila 'Fruit Salad'
- File Number
- 1726
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 1672
- Registration Date
- 07/05/2022
- Application Received
- 09/07/2019
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Eremophila 'Fruit Salad'
- Origin
- Chance seedling from the garden of Ray Schilling in 1998. Application submitted on behalf of the ANPSA Eremophila Study Group.
- Characteristics
- Prostrate form of E. glabra ssp. carnosa. In open areas, forms a prostrate mat with potential diameter of 3m. When grown amongst other plants, it may scramble up through these. Leaves: bright green, flowers: buds - red, petals – red, orange and yellow, sessile, 12mm long. Flowers in spring/summer but may flower at other times of the year after rain
- Cultivation
- Eremophila ‘Fruit Salad’ makes a great, drought-tolerant prostrate groundcover, suitable for flat sites or banks. It will grow in sun or semi-shade. The flowers are typical of E. glabra spp. carnosa, with red on the top, and orange shading to yellow underneath. Its bright green leaves in even dry conditions make it a great addition to the garden. It has been propagated vegetatively through several generations and is frost hardy.
- Publication
- Hort Journal Australia, August 2019 Vol 12, Issue 2, Page 40
- Colour Coding
- RHS 1995 Flowers: Upper Surface: Greyed Red Group 179A, Lower Surface: Greyed Yellow Group 162B
- Propagation
- Cuttings or grafting onto suitable rootstock such as Myoporum.
- Applicant Name
- Lyndal Thorburn, Queanbeyan NSW, 2620
- Uses
- Groundcover suitable for mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, attracts nectar feeding birds.
- Availability
- It is available from the Australian Native Plants Society Canberra Region plant sales and through the Eremophila Study Group.
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -