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Describe the plant here...
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'''''Grevillea buxifolia''''' ('''Grey spider flower''') is a species of the family [[Proteaceae]]. It grows in coastal [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. First described in 1793 by [[James Edward Smith]], he gave the new species the name 'Embothrium buxifolium'. It is  widely cultivated and contains a numbers of subspecies and cultivars. These vary most in the presentation of the attractive flower.
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The species forms a short shrub, three or four feet high. The numerous branches are covered in a reddish or brown hair and many leaves.  Flowers sit at the termination of these; yellowish and white, pendulous star shaped petals, set to appear in November.
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The flowers of the plant sit alone, erect in umbels, on stalks covered in reddish brown hairs. The corolla is likewise clothed and is partly fused to form a cavity. This interior is white and the petals are otherwise very pale to yellow; this spills above the hairy parts.  The single elliptal leaves are veiny, with a very rough dark green upper;  margins entire and roll to the downy underside. These are arranged, almost directly to the stem, alternate and numerous up the branches. They end in a little sharp point.
    
==Cultivation==
 
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==Varieties==
 
==Varieties==
 
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*Grevillea buxifolia (Sm.) R.Br. subsp. buxifolia
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*Grevillea buxifolia subsp. ecorniculata Olde & Marriott
    
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==

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