Grevillea banksii

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

Height: 10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10. to 30 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Width: 7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7.
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: Australia
Bloom: early spring, mid spring, late spring
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 11
Flower features: red, pink
Scientific Names

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Grevillea banksii, known by various common names including Red silky oak, Dwarf silky oak, Banks' grevillea, Byfield waratah and, in Hawaii, Kahili flower or Kahili tree is a plant of the large genus Grevillea in the diverse family Proteaceae. Native to Queensland, it has been a popular garden plant for many years though has been superseded somewhat horticulturally by smaller and more floriferous hybrids.


Read about Grevillea banksii in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Grevillea banksii, R. Br. Tall shrub or slender small tree, with branches rusty-tomentose: lvs. 4-8 in. long, pinnate or deeply pinnatifid, the segms. 3-11 and broad-linear or lanceolate, margins revolute: racemes terminal, erect and dense, 2—t in. long; fls. red, tomentose outside and glabrous inside: fr. about 1 in. long, obliquely ovate.—Offered abroad. CH


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