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Holly Grevillea

Grevillea ilicifolia

Holly Grevillea
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0

Holly grevillea is a spreading to prostrate Australian shrub with holly-like leaves and red-pink flowers, native to dry mallee, heath and shrubland. It is grown mainly for its flowers and is hardy and drought tolerant once established.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
Hardy in cool to warm temperate and subtropical conditions; tolerates light frost (about -5 °C) once established.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SC. New South Wales to W. Victoria, SE. South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea ilicifolia, commonly known as holly grevillea or holly bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a spreading to prostrate shrub with holly-like leaves with sharply-pointed triangular to egg-shaped teeth or lobes, and clusters of green to cream-coloured and mauve flowers with a pink to red style.

Where it grows

Grevillea ilicifolia grows in mallee, heath or shrubland in south-eastern South Australia, including the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island, in western inland Victoria, and near Griffith in western New South Wales. Subspecies lobata is restricted to north-western Victoria and the Murray and South-eastern botanical districts of South 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 ilicifolia 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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