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Grevillea tenuiloba

Grevillea tenuiloba
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Grevillea tenuiloba, or amber grevillea, is a low, spreading Western Australian shrub with orange flowers borne close to the ground. It is best grown in a dry summer climate with good drainage.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid wet roots and humid summers.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor soils.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Grevillea tenuiloba, commonly known as amber grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with pinnatipartite leaves with 5 to 11 linear to cylindrical lobes, and clusters of orange flowers often borne close to the ground.

How to grow it

This grevillea can be grown from scarified seed or from firm cuttings of the current season's growth. It is best suited to a dry summer climate, unless grafted on to a hardy rootstock.

Where it grows

Amber grevillea grows in Melaleuca shrubland between Wongan Hills and Jibberding near Wubin in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

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 tenuiloba 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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