| Scientific Name: | Scaevola aemula |
| Common Name: | fairy fan-flower |
| Family Name: | Goodeniaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Irregular, Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Filler, Hanging basket |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Obovate, Ovate, Spatulate, Ciliate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Yellow, Blue, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, tomentose, margins entire to sparsely toothed, lower ones spatulate and others more lanceolate, 1-7cm long x 0.5-2cm wide; flower 1-sided with 5 petals arranged like a fan from a tubular base. | |