Family: Proteaceae
Plant: An erect open shrub up to 2m high with the young growth and branchlets densely covered with brown hairs.
Flowers: Woolly light grey to rusty, hairy, irregular flowers in a loose terminal cluster about 2cm long. The styles are densely hairy and held prominently upright with a long appendage on the tip.
Flowering: September-November.
Fruit: Hairy follicle.
Leaves: Elliptic to ovate or obovate 1-2cm long and 2-8mm wide, hard, with slightly recurved margins and hairy below.
Habitat: Common in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Grey spider flowers in clusters with styles held upright and long appendage on tip.
Name:
Grevillea After the English botanical collector and propagator of plants Charles Francis Greville
buxifolia From Latin = box-like (referring to its leaves being similar to those of the European Buccus or Box))
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Grey, Rust |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
Hairy |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Hard, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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