Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Grevillea 'Canberra Gem'

Flowering branch. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branch including buds and spent flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, unknown place

Common name

None.

Family

Proteaceae

Where found

Often naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Erect, moderately dense shrub to 2.5m high, with slender ascending branches. Leaves 1.5-3 cm long, 0 5-1 mm wide. Flowers red to yellow-green, with 4 'petals', style 12-15 mm long, red, hairless.

Registered cultivar. Grevillea juniperina x Grevillea rosmarinifolia.

In the absence of specific information, seeds of all species of Grevillea have been keyed as having one wing.

Description in ACRA (Australian Cultivar Registration Authority):  https://www.anbg.gov.au/acra/descriptions/acc092.html  (accessed 1 May 2021)