CAT-00052
Boobialla
Myoporum insulare
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Myoporum
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- single
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Fruit
- Latin name
- Myoporum insulare
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- Boobialla
- Source URLs
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Myoporum%20insulare | https://tuckerbush.com.au/boobialla-myoporum-insulare-prostrate/; https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A585290-1 Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗ Open source 3 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00052
- Mature width
- Not confirmed; allow spread appropriate to growth habit
- Native range
- Coastal Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, Victoria and Tasmania.
- Plant family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Nursery-listed / regional edible
- Mature height
- Not confirmed; habit described in brief description
- Native states
- NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
- Original list
- No
- Research date
- 10/10/2026
- Research notes
- Profile enriched from botanical/nursery sources. Dimensions are unpruned regional estimates where available; missing measurements remain explicit. Seasons are regional guides and vary with climate, location, cultivar and plant maturity. Drought and cultivation guidance are qualitative garden inferences, not measured ratings.
- Evidence status
- Nursery food-use source; preparation detail review pending
- Fruiting season
- Late summer reported for nursery form.
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Fully ripe fruit
- Flowering season
- Spring-summer reported for nursery form.
- Brief description
- Dense coastal shrub; prostrate nursery forms differ greatly from upright species.
- Drought tolerance
- High once established.
- Preparation notes
- Food use remains under review; do not generalise edibility across Myoporum species.
- Flower description
- Small white flowers.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Trial well-drained sunny ground; verify identity and food-use guidance before eating.
- Botanical description
- Small bushy tree or shrub to 4 m high. Leaves alternate, glabrous, glossy, dotted with pellucid glands, somewhat succulent; petiole 5–10 mm long; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblanceolate, 3–6 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, gradually narrowed to petiole, entire or obscurely crenate-serrate towards apex, acute to subacuminate with fine tip. Flowers 1–8 per leaf axil; pedicels 1–10 mm long. Sepals triangular, 2 mm long. Corolla white with purple dots; tube 3 mm long; lobes suborbicular, 4 mm long, pilose towards base. Stamens 4, 2 mm long. Ovary flask-shaped, 2 mm long; style slender, curved, 3 mm long, sparsely pilose. Fruit ovoid, 7–8 mm long, purple.
- Other botanical names
- Not recorded
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Native bees and insects visit flowers; canopy shelters birds.
- Flora of Australia profile
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Myoporum%20insulare Open source ↗
- Fruit type and description
- Small purple fleshy drupes; confirm edible use of the exact species and form.
- Flora of Australia citation
- P.S. Green. Myoporum insulare. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Myoporum%20insulare (accessed 2026-10-14). Copyright Commonwealth of Australia; CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). HTML formatting removed; species-level context added where noted. Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Flora of Australia retrieved
- 14/10/2026