Fuchsia family
ONAGRACEAE in Australia

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com ) & Christine Ashe

link to Flowers in Australia

Epilobium ciliatum Glandular willow-herb Morwell Park, January 1990	Fuchsia hybrid Sydney, August 2006	Fuchsia boliviana Bolivian Fuchsia Wyee, August 2008	Fuchsia triphylla Honeysuckle Fuchsia Sydney, September 2006
Gaura lindheimeri White Gaura Concord, January 2007	Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink' Pink Butterfly Bush Newtown, December 2006	Oenothera glaziowiana Evening Primrose Katoomba, January 2008	Oenothera speciosa Pink Evening Primrose Wyee, February 2007

Ludwigia arcuata Piedmont Primrose Sydney, April 2009

Ludwigia longifolia Longleaf Primrose Willow Grafton, April 2008

Ludwigia peploides Water Primrose Sydney, August 2007

Some species in ONAGRACEAE have been used as the foodplant by caterpillars of a number of species of Australian Butterflies and Moths, for example:

Theretra silhetensis

Hippotion celerio

Theretra latreillii

Hippotion scrofa

Theretra oldenlandiae

Phalaenoides glycinae

Phalaenoides tristifica

Spodoptera litura

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Australian butterflies

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(updated 15 May 2010)