Fuchsia family : ONAGRACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

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

Plant Classes

Epilobium ciliatum Fringed Willow Herb photo: courtesy of Jackie Miles Lake Eucumbene, January 2007	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:

Hippotion celerio

Hippotion scrofa

Theretra latreillii

Theretra oldenlandiae

Theretra silhetensis

Anachloris subochraria

Phalaenoides glycinae

Phalaenoides tristifica

Spodoptera litura

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013)