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Rare Grevillea

Grevillea rara

Rare Grevillea
Photo: John Wrigley, CC BY 3.0 au

Grevillea rara is a prickly, spreading shrub from south-west Western Australia with white to pale pink flowers, a restricted native species. It needs good drainage and full sun to thrive in cultivation.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates lateritic and clay soils if drainage is good.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea rara, also known as the rare grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the South West region of Western Australia. It is a prostrate, sprawling shrub when young, later a dense, prickly shrub with pinnatisect leaves with linear lobes, and clusters of white to pale pink flowers.

Where it grows

Rare grevillea is found amongst tall shrubs or medium trees in shrubland and jarrah forest in a small area north of Collie. It grows in lateritic, gravelly, sandy or clay soils. Associated species include Eucalyptus marginata, Corymbia calophylla, Banksia grandis, Hakea lasiantha, Xanthorrhoea preissii, Acacia pulchella, and Acacia drummondii.

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 rara 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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