Attractive trailing shrub. Watermelon pink to white/cream hibiscus-like flowers last one day, but prolific during wet season. Re-shoots from underground tuber with first rains. Tubers, leaves and shoots edible raw or cooked. Wide medicinal uses. Food plant for the Spotted Bollworm moth and Cotton Leaf roller. More information here and here. Aboriginal Plant Knowledge. 1-1.5M

  • Bird & Butterfly attracting

  • Waterwise

  • Edible

  • Groundcover

  • Shrub

Yvonne Wood

Fagg, M. ANBG

NT Government

Fagg, M. ANBG

yvonne wood

McWhirter, A. ANBG

NT Government