This variable perennial shrub has slender stems that are spreading and ascending forming a prostrate habit. It has mid-green toothed oval leaves and the variably sized fan-shaped, mauve-blue flowers appear solitary from spring to summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11 

Scaevola aemula is naturally found in Australia from New South Wales to Victoria and South Australia growing on the coast in sand dunes and extend to the adjoining tablelands in Eucalypt forests.

It prefers a full sun open position and grows in a well drained moderately fertile soil and is drought and frost tender but tolerates salt spray. 

The Fairy Fan-flower is grown for its flowers and its prostrate habit. It is planted in small gardens or rockeries as a ground cover and spill over. It is also used in containers and is suitable for coastal and the adjoining tableland regions establishing in one season. ID 2379

Scaevola (skee-VOL-ah) aemula (AIM-yoo-lah)

Goodeniaceae (goo-DEN-AY-see-ee)