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Grevillea robusta

Dec 2006.<br>Photographer: Peter J. de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Flowering Grevillea robusta.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Grevillea robusta.<br>Photographer: Peter J. de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

silky oak

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons

Flower colours

Orange, Yellow

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Proteaceae

Authority

Grevillea robusta A.Cunn. ex R.Br.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1988

Origin

Coastal Queensland and Northern N.S.W.

Other information

Etymology

grevillea: Named after Charles F. Greville (1749-1809), Earl of Warwick, Lord of the Admiralty, founder member of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1804, Vice President of the Royal Society.

robusta: Sturdy

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

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