This low rounded shrub grows up to 60cm high, flowers prolifically after rains and is very drought tolerant. Widely distributed throughout inland Australia.
Bushfood: Aboriginal people sometimes harvest an edible grub from its roots.
A 16-hectare botanic garden in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, specialising in plants native to the arid central Australian region.
The Garden has over 600 central Australian plant species, including 145 occurring naturally and 40 rare or threatened.
The Olive Pink Botanic Garden acknowledges the Arrernte people as traditional owners of the land we work and grow on.
