Family: Proteaceae
Plant: A variable dense erect or spreading shrub up to 2m high with its reddish branchlets densely covered with hairs.
Flowers: Hairy, irregular flowers that are usually green with reddish-brown markings. The flowers appear in spider-like clusters about 5cm across. The styles red-purple.
Flowering: April-October.
Fruit: Hairy follicle.
Leaves: Soft, hairy, elliptic 1-4cm long and about 1.5cm wide, mid-green, concave below and ending in a small pointed tip.
Habitat: In lightly timbered dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Hairy elliptic leaves. Green spider flowers with red styles. Fruit a hairy follicle.
Name:
Grevillea After the English botanical collector and propagator of plants Charles Francis Greville
mucronulata From Latin = having a small hardened leaf tip
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Green, Rust |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
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Flowering Month |
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, |
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10 |
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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 |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Soft, |
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Sharp-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest |
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