Comfrey family
BORAGINACEAE in Australia

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

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Austrocynoglossum latifolium Forest Hound’s Tongue Morwell Park, December 1990	Borago officinalis Borage Sydney, September 2006	Cynoglossum suaveolens Sweet Hound’s Tongue Morwell Park, December 1990	Echium fastuosum Pride of Madeira Concord, September 2006
Echium plantagineum Paterson's Curse Sydney, September 2006	Halgania cyanea Mallee Blue-flower Hattah Kulkyne National Park, Victoria, October 1991	Heliotropium arborescens Heliotrope Wyee, March 2007	Myosotis sylvatica Wood Forgetmenot Morwell Park, September 2000

Plants in BORAGINACEAE have been used as foodplants for the caterpillars of a number of Australian Butterfly and Moth species, including:

Erysichton lineata	Arhopala micale	Phaedyma shepherdi	Ethmia heliomela	Ethmia nigroapicella	Ethmia sphaerosticha
Dialectica scalariella	Neumichtis saliaris	Cremnophora angasii	Spilosoma glatignyi	Utetheisa pulchelloides	Scopula perlata

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Australian butterflies

Plant Classes

Australian moths

(updated 15 May 2010)