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Grevillea lanigera

Grevillea lanigera
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Native range
SE. New South Wales to E. Victoria
Climate
temperate

About

Grevillea lanigera, commonly known as woolly grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a spreading shrub with narrowly oblong to more or less linear leaves and clusters of pink to red, and cream-coloured flowers.

How to grow it

This grevillea is popular in cultivation and can be grown from seed or from cuttings. It is hardy in a range of climate and soil conditions. It is drought and frost hardy but prefers a sunny position in the garden.

Where it grows

Woolly grevillea grows in moist, rocky places in scrub, woodland and forest, south from near Dubbo and east of the Riverina in New South Wales, mainly on the coast and tablelands through the Australian Capital Territory to eastern Victoria.

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 lanigera by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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