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Date of issue: 24 February 2026
Designer: Jo Mure, Australia Post Design Studio
Printer: RA Printing

This is one of two Australian native plants in a series of Eremophila stamps.

Plant: Eremophila phyllopoda

Family: SCROPHULARIACEAE

Common-name: none known, one of many 'emu bushes'

An upright, rounded, sometimes flat top shrub to 2 m high by 2.5 m wide. Its grey green leaves are flat and often hang down. The corolla is deep lilac, blue, pink or white tinged with lilac. Flowering time is spring, but may also be sporadic. Distribution: Arid regions of western central WA.



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