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Grevillea spinosa, known as tjiilka-tjiilka, is a dense, prickly desert shrub from inland Western Australia, grown mainly for its spiny foliage and flowers. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water once established.
Grevillea spinosa, commonly known as tjiilka-tjiilka, is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a dense, prickly shrub with mostly pinnatipartite leaves with rigid, sharply-pointed linear lobes, and erect clusters of reddish to blackish green flowers with a bright yellow to orange style.
Tjiilka-tjiilka is found around Wiluna from the Canning Stock Route to the Little Sandy Desert and as far south as Yeelirrie Station. It grows on stony ridges and in gravelly, sandy or loamy soils often over sandstone.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea spinosa 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.
