Grevillea arenaria

Hackett, ACT

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Grevillea arenaria	29 Sep 2023	waltraud
Grevillea arenaria	27 Sep 2023	Tapirlord
Grevillea alpina	27 Sep 2023	abread111
Grevillea sp.	27 Sep 2023	waltraud

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In grassy woodland. The first photo of the garden escape shows a collected sample of a grevillea shrub which I photographed in situ (second photo) when light was dim.

6 comments

abread111 wrote:

27 Sep 2023

Hmm, a spider flower grevillea - if it is G. alpina, it is a "local", from Black Mountain

waltraud wrote:

27 Sep 2023

Barb, the colour of flowers and leaves don't match G. alpina. I'm 99% sure it is a garden escape; over the past 20 years removing woody weeds in this area sand that location I found many grevillea rosmarinifolia and hybrids rosmarinifolia x juniperina; but I can't remember having spotted the beautiful yellow green flowering grevillea.

abread111 wrote:

27 Sep 2023

The ones on Black Mountain are red but see description in https://apps.lucidcentral.org/plants_se_nsw/text/entities/grevillea_alpina.htm
- it does seem to be a very variable species.
Probably is a garden escapee like all the others. Take some cuttings and call it Waltraud's Wonder...

natureguy wrote:

27 Sep 2023

Pretty sure this is G. arenaria, as Ciaran suggested. Not something local

waltraud wrote:

27 Sep 2023

hmm the G. arenaria we found in the north invading from Fed highway plantings have different coloured flowers - the leaves are matching G arenaria. Perhaps a cultivar.... I collected samples, will see what Isobel thinks.

Tapirlord wrote:

29 Sep 2023

Yes, I it very likely a cultivar But one based of G.arenaria (the wild ones don’t look like this really).

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