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Beadle's Grevillea

Beadle's Grevillea

Grevillea beadleana

Family Proteaceae

Endangered — rediscovered at Chaelundi Falls in 1981

About

Thought lost at its original 1887 Walcha collection site, Beadle's grevillea survives in only four known wild populations on shallow granite soils, including a significant population in Guy Fawkes River National Park near Chaelundi Falls, where it was rediscovered in 1981.

How to spot it

Shrub 0.8-2.5m tall with finely dissected, fern-like leaves 80-165mm long; one-sided racemes of grey-to-purplish flowers with a burgundy-to-scarlet style in late spring and summer, followed by woolly-haired seed pods.

Found in

  • Guy Fawkes River National Park

Source: Wikipedia: Grevillea beadleana

Photo: Tatiana Gerus (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons