Solanaceae

Bush Tomato / Flannel bush

Erect or rounded shrub, 0.2-1m high. Fl. purple-violet, Jan or Apr to Oct. depending as to where it is growing. Red-brown clay loam or sandy clay,

Pituri Bush

Rounded shrub to 4 m tall and 3 m wide. Leaves narrowly elliptic or ovate-elliptic to linear, sessile (or rarely with petiole to 3 mm long), 2–12 cm long, 1–13 mm wide, concolorous.

Sticky Tailflower, Sticky Rayflower

A common sight on rocky headlands along the WA south coast. The Sticky Ray-flower is an upright, dense shrub growing up to 3m high and spreading to 4m across. Leaves are broad,

Australian Box-thorn

Intricately branched shrub to 2.5 m with rigid branches; lateral branches leafy, often ending in a spine. Leaves usually clustered, narrowly obovoid to ellipsoid, to 25 mm long, thick and fleshy,

Felted Anthotroche

Erect or sprawling to prostrate shrub, 0.1-2.5 m high. Fl. green-yellow-purple/black-violet, Aug to Dec or Jan to Feb. Sandy soils. Sand dunes, sandplains or sandy rises in low-lying saline areas.

Pituri

Shrub or small tree to 3 or 4 metres tall. Long tapering leaves. White 5-petalled flowers with purple and yellow markings in the centre.

Kangaroo Apple

Erect shrub to 2 m high, glabrous except for minute hairs on corolla apices; prickles absent. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 3–8 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, margins usually entire, ± concolorous,

Wild Tobacco

We found this Nicotiana growing inside a small cave - almost a cave dwelling plant. It favours growing in rocky places like rocky hills, cliffs & outcrops.

Flannel Bush

Low woody shrub. Leaves grey and thickly felted with short grey hairs. Sharp spines on stems and calyx.

Wild Tobacco or Rosetted Tobacco

Bush Tomato

Dense low shrub to 50cm high. Leaves deeply lobed, prickly.

Bush Tomato

Low soft shrub. Elongated, grey leaves.

Bush Tomato

Wild Tomato

Rounded shrub growing to about 1.5m tall. Prickles up to 1cm long on stems only. All parts covered with short dense hairs that can be silvery or rusty colour.