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Foote’s grevillea

Grevillea calliantha

Also called Black Magic Grevillea, Cataby Grevillea, Foote's Grevillea

Foote’s grevillea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Foote's grevillea is a spreading, compact shrub of the Protea family, native to a small area of sandy heathland in south-west Western Australia. It is grown in gardens for its pale yellow to apricot flowers and needs well-drained, sandy soil and full sun.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or sandy loam soil; dislikes phosphorus-rich and heavy clay soils.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm temperatures; frost tolerance is limited, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea calliantha, commonly known as Foote's grevillea, Cataby grevillea or black magic grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, compact shrub with pinnatipartite leaves with linear lobes, and pale yellow to apricot-coloured flowers with a maroon-black to reddish style.

Where it grows

This grevillea grows in heathland in sandy soil and is restricted an area north of Cataby in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Grevillea plants

Grevillea acacioides · Grevillea acanthifolia · Grevillea acerata · Grevillea acrobotrya · Grevillea acropogon · Grevillea acuaria · Grevillea adenotricha · Grevillea agrifolia · Grevillea albiflora · Catclaws Grevillea · Grevillea alpivaga · Grevillea althoferorum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea calliantha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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