emu-bush

emu-bush

Eremophila longifolia, Long-leaved Emu-bush or Berrigan, Boort, Victoria, Oct09. Although not officially listed with a conservation status, this pretty shrub is slowly disappearing from North-Central Victoria. The hardest to propagate of all the Emu bushes, with about a 10 percent strike rate in local nurseries, the small populations that do still exist are virtually all on road sides and hardly anywhere in secure conservation blocks. My theory on its decline is that it is due to the complete lack of Emu’s in this part of Australia. I reckon these birds would have been the natural seed distributor and that they really need the Emu’s guts to germinate properly.

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