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Grevillea pyramidalis
Also called Caustictree
Grevillea pyramidalis, commonly known as the caustic bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub or small tree with simple linear or pinnatisect leaves with linear to narrowly egg-shaped lobes, and white to yellow or cream-coloured flowers.
Caustic bush grows in a range of soil types. Subspecies leucadendron grows in open grassy woodland in the Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions of northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Subspecies longiloba grows in open grassy woodland in the Northern Territory, mainly in the Katherine area and subsp. pyramidalis grows in low woodland between Broome and the Prince Regent River in north-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea pyramidalis 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.
