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Curly Grevillea

Grevillea eryngioides

Curly Grevillea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Curly grevillea is a glaucous shrub from south-west Western Australia, forming low clumps with flowering spikes up to about 1.5 m tall and suckering. Grow it in full sun with very free-draining soil, as it is native to dry heath and shrubland.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and allow the soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; poor soils suit it well.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range; protect from frost, roughly below -5 °C (general knowledge).
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea eryngioides, commonly called curly grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub with low clumping foliage with erect flowering spikes, divided leaves with oblong to egg-shaped lobes, and groups of purplish-red flowers with a yellow style.

Where it grows

Curly grevillea grows in heath or shrubland and is widespread between Morawa, Lake Grace, Coolgardie and Peak Charles National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains and Mallee 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 eryngioides 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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