Family: Proteaceae
Plant: A very common erect shrub up to 1.5m tall with silky angular branchlets.
Flowers: Normally pale pink to deep pink (but can be mauve, red or even white), hairy, irregular in terminal spider-like clusters up to 5cm across. The flowers have long styles.
Flowering: July-November.
Fruit: Hairless follicle.
Leaves: Obovate to elliptic up to 6cm long and up to 1cm wide with recurved margins and silky on the underside
Habitat: In dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Pink spider flowers. Leaves silky on the undersides.
Name:
Grevillea After the English botanical collector and propagator of plants Charles Francis Greville
sericea From Latin = silky (referring to its leaves)
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Pink, Red, |
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Mauve, White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked, Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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