An attractive shrub to large bush, the western boobialla grows along many of the drainage tracts at Fowlers Gap. It has attractive 5-petalled small white flowers and is poisonous to sheep and cattle!

The western boobialla is glabrous shrub 1-3 m high.

Bark: branches are hairless, red to green on younger shoots, bark smooth.
Leaves: lanceolate to elliptic, sometimes narrow, 50-120 x 4-14 mm, acute to semi-acuminate, entire.
Flowers: of different ages in axillary clusters of 1-7 on stalks 6-10 mm long, corolla bell-shaped, white with purple spots.
Fruit: nearly globular, 6-8 mm diameter, smooth, light reddish-purple.
Source: Phillip Moore (2005). A guide to plants of inland Australia. Reed New Holland, ISBN 1 876334 86 X.
Photos: Ian Roach

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