This is a work in progress. Four shrubs are shown below. There will be more to come!

There are many different shrub species on the Range of Bungalbin. There are tall shrubs up to four metres high and smaller shrubs from almost prostrate to about two metres high.

Some Tall Shrubs on the Range, Bungalbin

Dysentery Bush Alyxia buxifolia flowers & immature green fruit     Alyxia buxifolia mature ripe yellow and orange fruit

Calycopeplus paucifolius shrub                        Calycopeplus paucifolius fruit

Water Bush (or Silver-leaved Water Bush) Grevillea nematophylla subsp. nematophylla

Grevillea nematophylla subsp. nematophylla

Dysentery Bush

Alyxia buxifolia

Family: Apocynaceae (Dogbane or Milkweed Family)

• • common on the Range and easily identified by its thick broad upright leaves
  • its scented flowers have, five white petals (arranged like a propella) attached to a yellowish-orange corolla (tube)
  • fruit are fleshy berries, green when immature, ripening to a yellow or orange colour (considered toxic to humans)
  • has a sticky white sap that includes tocic compounds

Calycopeplus paucifolius

Family: Euphorbiaceae (Spurge Family)

• • common on the Range and easily picked out by its broom-like appearance
  • has green upright stems with reduced leaves (5-25mm long)
  • the flowers do not have petals, and are either male or femal flowers
  • fruit have three capsules (trilobed) and expel their seeds from the fruit explosively (can hear them popping on a warm to hot day when mature)
  • has a copious milky white sap when stem broken, can be caustic or act as an irritant
  • does not have a common name. Scientific name pronounced Ca (as in cat) lee co pep lus

Water Bush (or Silver-leaved Water Bush)

Grevillea nematophylla subsp. nematophylla

Family: Proteaceae

• • common on the Range, standing out when in flower
  • after good rains can flower profusely with its pink-white inflorescences (many small flowers grouped together on a relatively short flower spike)
  • fruit are thinly woody, dehisce releasing the seed while still on the plant, and later the empty fruit capsules fall from the plant

Some Small Shrubs on the Range, Bungalbin

Cotton Bush  Ptilotus obovatus in flower (a type of Mulla Mulla)            Ptiolotus obovatus leaves with dense short hairs

Ptilotus obovatus on BIF slope

Cotton Bush  

Ptilotus obovatus

Family: Amaranthaceae (Amaranth Family)

• • Ptilotus (Tye low tus - has a silent P) are known as Mulla Mullas that grow in the more arid areas of Western Australia such as the Yilgarn, Goldfields and beyond. Some species occur in more coastal areas. There are up to 90 specie in Western Australia.
  • grows as dominant species (like a carpet) on some of the slopes of the Range, usually the southern slopes
  • looks spectacular when there has been good rains and is in flower, although a smaller flower and more gentle colourthan other mulla mulla species.
  • flowers form flower heads at the end of branches on rounded compact low shrubs.
  • the stems and leaves are covered in dense short hairs giving at blue-grey colour and furry appearance.