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Grevillea curviloba

Grevillea curviloba
Photo: Michael Sim, CC BY 3.0

Grevillea curviloba is a drought-tolerant Western Australian shrub, prostrate to erect, with divided narrow leaves and cream to white flowers. It is grown as an ornamental shrub or groundcover in dry, well-drained gardens.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly until established, then only sparingly; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soil.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry conditions; frost tolerance not documented in sources, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Grevillea curviloba is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate to erect shrub with short branchlets, divided leaves with linear to narrowly lance-shaped lobes with the narrower end towards the base, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

How to grow it

Grevillea curviloba is cultivated as an ornamental plant by plant nurseries, for use in gardens and drought tolerant landscaping. It is grown as a shrub with erect forms, or maintained as a 2 feet (0.61 m) by 15 feet (4.6 m) groundcover with prostrate forms.

Where it grows

Subspecies curviloba grows in open shrubland in a small area near Bullsbrook and subsp. incurva grows in winter-wet heathland near Muchea.

Other Grevillea plants

Grevillea aspleniifolia · Grevillea baileyana · Kahiliflower · Grevillea baueri · Fuchsia grevillea · Golden Grevillea · Grevillea ×gaudichaudii · Grevillea glossadenia · Spreading Grevillea · Grevillea iaspicula · Juniper Leaf Grevillea · Lavender Grevillea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea curviloba 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.

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