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Grevillea preissii

Grevillea preissii
Photo: Gnangarra, CC BY 2.5 au

Grevillea preissii is a low, mounded to spreading or dense erect shrub native to coastal southwest Western Australia, grown for its red to pinkish red flowers. The key to growing it is full sun, very good drainage and little water once established.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly; avoid waterlogged soil.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil, tolerant of poor, low-nutrient conditions.
Temperature
Mild to warm climates; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Easy
Native range
WSW. Western Ausralia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea preissii is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a mounded to spreading or dense, erect shrub, the leaves divided with 5 to 7 linear to more or less cylindrical lobes, and groups of reddish flowers arranged along one side of the flowering rachis.

Where it grows

Grevillea preissii subsp. glabrilimba grows in low heath, in near-coastal areas between Green Head and Leeman and subsp. preissii is found in coastal areas between Lancelin and Bunbury, in the southwest of Western Australia.

Other Grevillea plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea preissii 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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