Scaevola calendulacea
(Andr.) Druce
Sweet fan flower, Dune Fan Flower
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The purple berry-like fruit are eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows on sand dunes near the coast. It can tolerate salt spray. It grows on sand islands along the Queensland coast. It cannot tolerate frost. Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens.
Australia*,
How to Identify
A sprawling creeper or low shrub. It can spread for several metres. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are fleshy and covered with fine hairs. The flowers have 5 petals which are on the one side of the flower. The flowers are blue. The fruit are purple and berry-like.
How to Grow
Plants can be grown from cuttings. It can be grown from seeds by putting them in a cool dark location unit they germinate.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Scaevola calendulacea commonly known as dune fan-flower, is a flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, mat-forming shrub with blue fan-shaped flowers with a yellow centre and grows on sand dunes in eastern and southern Australia.
Notes
There are about 100 Scaevola species. Most are in Australia. They mostly grow by the sea.
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