![]() ![]() Winter Blaze is a low to moderate water use plant and is a hummingbird favorite. CARNOSA Winter Blaze This bullet proof shrub matures at 3’ x 3’ and will tolerate reflected heat and full sun but maintains a lush appearance with evergreen, glossy foliage and tubular red flowers. Flowering occurs from January to November and is followed by fruits which are oval to almost spherical and 6.6–9 millimetres (0.3–0.4 in) in diameter. PLANT OF THE MONTH EREMOPHILA GLABRA SSP. There are 5 partly overlapping sepals which are narrow triangular to egg shaped and 5 petals forming a tube except at the ends where the lowest lobe is thinner that the rest and is turned back below the flower. Flower Colour:Red, orange or yellow Eremophila glabra Hybrids The following hybrids with E.glabrain the parentage are known Eremophila ‘Beryls Lipstick’(Eremophila glabra x Eremophila maculata ssp. The flowers are red or orange, sometimes yellow and occur singly in the leaf axils on flower stalks 4.5–7 millimetres (0.2–0.3 in) long. The leaves are scattered and spreading, elliptic to lance shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–58 millimetres (0.6–2 in) long and 2.5–12 millimetres (0.1–0.5 in) wide. 383, Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh, 4, Ambrosia chamissonis, Asteraceae. brittleleaf manzanita, Arctostaphylos tomentosa ssp. The stems are covered with fine white hairs, except for a strip underneath the leaf attachment, so that the hairs are in bands down the stems interspersed with glabrous bands. 11, Bodega, 1, Abronia umbellata, Nyctaginaceae, Abronia, umbellata, ssp. Eremophila glabra forms showed more variability in frost tolerance, with some showing no damage at all whereas E.glabra ssp carnosa and the Canning Stock Route form suffered extensive damage but recovered, while the 'Murchison River' form died. 2001, Kats and Ferrer 2003) and has been observed eating red-legged frogs in the Elkhorn. glabra is a shrub varying in size but in the range 0.5–3 metres (2–10 ft) high, sometimes spreading to 4 metres (10 ft) wide.
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