Poverty bush is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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Acacia translucens
''Acacia translucens'', commonly known as poverty bush, is a shrub that is endemic to a large area of north western Australia.
Description
Poverty bush is a low, spreading shrub with a flat top that grows to a height of and a width of around a ...
'', a shrub that occurs on spinifex plains in northern Australia
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Acacia stellaticeps
''Acacia stellaticeps'', commonly known as the Northern star wattle, poverty bush and glistening wattle. Indigenous Australians the Nyangumarta peoples know the bush as pirrnyur or pirrinyurru and the Ngarla peoples know it as panmangu. It is a s ...
'', a shrub found in the north of Western Australia
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Eremophila (plant)
''Eremophila'' is a genus of more than 260 species of plants in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae all of which are endemic to mainland Australia. (One species, ''Eremophila debilis'' is thought to be a recent arrival in New Zealand). Ere ...
'', a genus of plants of the family Myoporaceae, endemic to arid regions of Australia
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Kunzea ambigua
''Kunzea ambigua'', commonly known as white kunzea, poverty bush or tick bush, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is found mainly on sandstone soils in eastern Australia. Growing up to high and wide, it bears small white flowers in ...
'', a shrub found in eastern Australia, also known as white kunzea or tick bush
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