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Grevillea pilosa

Grevillea pilosa
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Grevillea pilosa is a dense, spreading to prostrate shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown for its pink to red flower clusters. It is a species of the Proteaceae, and it is not commonly grown as a houseplant.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then keep fairly dry once established, avoiding waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly soil, ideally low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; frost tolerance varies, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea pilosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading to prostrate shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong leaves with sharply pointed, more or less triangular teeth or lobes, and clusters of pale pink to rose-pink or red flowers.

Where it grows

This grevillea grows in mallee shrubland or heath, subspecies pilosa between Newdegate, Mount Holland and Ravensthorpe in the Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions and subsp. redacta further north, in a small area just north of Lake Cronin to north of Mount Holland in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions 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 pilosa 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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