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common boobialla

Myoporum insulare

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 210, February 139, March 113, April 166, May 114, June 89, July 89, August 139, September 341, October 316, November 209, December 168.
Australia2,093
Victoria1,159
South Australia682
South Africa325
Western Cape313
Tasmania165
New Zealand141
Western Australia65
Canterbury Region36
Auckland Region27

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
Familyfigwort family · Scrophulariaceae
GenusNgaios · Myoporum

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise common boobialla with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.