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Grevillea glossadenia

Grevillea glossadenia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Grevillea glossadenia is a shrub from northeastern Queensland, growing 1 to 2 m tall with orange-red to deep yellow-orange flowers that bloom mostly April to August. It grows best in a sunny spot with good drainage.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained soil; tolerates poor soils once established.
Temperature
15–30 °C; frost hardy, but protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Grevillea glossadenia is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland, in northeastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less elliptic leaves and deep yellow-orange to orange-red flowers.

How to grow it

Grevillea glossadenia is cultivated as an ornamental plant. It is suitable for use in small gardens as a shrub or small tree, where it grows readily in a sunny position with good drainage. It is frost hardy and tolerates humidity. The cultivar Grevillea 'Orange Marmalade' was produced by crossing this species with Grevillea venusta.

Where it grows

This grevillea grows in woodland or open forest mainly between Walkamin, Irvinbank and Herberton.

Other Grevillea plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea glossadenia 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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