Native Fuchsia (Eremophila)
Eremophila maculata
About Native Fuchsia (Eremophila)
Native Fuchsia (Eremophila) (Eremophila maculata) is a herb used in the Aboriginal Australian Medicine tradition to help with Fever, Wound Healing, Skin Health, and Inflammation. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Eremophila maculata, also known as spotted emu bush, or spotted fuchsia-bush is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is the most widespread of its genus in nature and probably the most frequently cultivated Eremophila. It is a spreading, often densely branched shrub with variable leaf shape and flower colour, but the other features of the flowers such as the size and shape of the parts are consistent. The inside...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist