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Grevillea spinosissima is a spiny, arching shrub from south-west Western Australia with divided, needle-like leaves and creamy-white to mauve flower clusters. It is a hardy native best grown in full sun in free-draining soil, with minimal feeding.
Grevillea spinosissima is species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a spiny shrub with three-part leaves with sharply-pointed, linear lobes, and clusters of creamy-white and green to mauve flowers with a white style.
This grevillea grows in heath, shrubland, or open shrubby woodland, sometimes in disturbed areas and is found from Wongan Hills to near Quairading and York in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Grevillea spinosissima 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.
