Australian Cultivar Registration Authority

Description:
Photographer: K Warnes

Description:
Photographer: K Warnes

Description: Eremophila 'Piccaninny Dawn', Taken: 13 December 2018, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Eremophila 'Piccaninny Dawn'

File Number

1270

ACRA Field Book Number

1270

Registration Date

20/05/2013

Application Received

27/04/2008

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Cultivar Name

Eremophila 'Piccaninny Dawn'

Origin

Eremophila Study Group Garden seedling from Owen in South Australia. Thought to be a hybrid between Eremophila oldfieldii ssp angustifolia and E. oppositifolia

Characteristics

Prolific flowering, upright compact shrub, leaves dark grey green, branches from ground level, rose-pink flowers. Comparators: Eremophila oldfieldii ssp angustifolia is a large shrub or small tree, up to 5m high by 4m wide with fleshy cylindrical dark green leaves and orange-red or bright red corolla. E. oppositifolia ssp oppositifolia is a rounded or dense, upright shrub to 4m high by 3m wide with silver-grey or grey green long narrow leaves. Corolla is white to cream, pale yellow or pink to purple and the sepals are white to cream, pale yellow or pink to purple but necessarily matching the corolla. Size: 3m x 4m Flower colour:Corolla - Rose pink Flower size: 25-30mm Flowering period: Late autumn to mid winter and intermittent throughout the year. Time in cultivation: 10 years

Cultivation

Grows best in well drained soils. Best in a sunny site but will tolerate some shade. It responds well to light pruning and is drought tolerant and frost hardy

Publication

Growing Eremophila, R. Wait, 2021. p298

Colour Coding

RHS Colour Chart 1995 Corolla: Red Purple Group 70B Base of Corolla: Green Yellow Group 1C Leaves: Yellow Green Group 146A

Propagation

Cuttings or grafting onto suitable rootstock such as Myoporum.

Applicant Name

Ken Warnes

Uses

As part of the shrubbery, screen planting or as a showy feature plant. Bird attracting.

Availability

Specialist native plant nurseries

ANBG Accession Numbers

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NSL ID

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