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RE: birding-aus Plants and birds

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Subject: RE: birding-aus Plants and birds
From: Paul van Gasse <>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:30:49 +0200
In fact; Eremophila comes from the Greek 'eremos', which is a desert, and 
'phil-', which means 'loving', or 'being fond of'. So, it means a plant or bird 
which loves the desert. Is that applicable to the plant?

Paul Van Gasse
Kruibeke, Belgium



-----Original Message-----
From:   Timothy Nye Dolby [SMTP:
Sent:   Tuesday, April 20, 1999 2:04 AM
To:     Trevor Hampel; 
Subject:        Re: birding-aus Plants and birds


> My wife is an avid grower of Australian native plants. She also has more 
> than a passing interest in birds. Yesterday as we had lunch in our sun 
> room, we were delighted to have 9 New Holland Honeyeaters giving one 
> particular plant a thorough going over for their lunch.
> The plant was an Eremophila metallica, a low shrubby spreading plant
> covering some two square metres and no more than 50 cm high. The 
> resident Singing Honeyeaters, Spiny Cheeked Honeyeaters and Red 
> Wattlebirds are also frequent visitors to this plant, though these are 
> somewhat more genteel eaters than the enthusiastic New Hollands.

Just on a side note - the plant family Eremophila shares 
its name with a group of Larks - such as Eremophila 
alpestris (Horned Lark) and Eremophila bilopha (Temminck's 
Lark). 

Also Eremophila glabra, or the 'emu bush', is particularly 
attractive to birds. 

Eremophilla (as far as I can work out) is a reference to 
a 'hermit', or to the 'recluse' - so presumably both birds 
and plants were considered hard to find? 

Tim 





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