Blue Mountains Grevillea
Grevillea acanthifolia
Family Proteaceae
Blue Mountains bog specialist
About
A prickly-leaved shrub first collected from 'peaty bogs on the Blue Mountains' during an 1817 expedition, and still found today in the range's high-altitude swamps and wet heath.
How to spot it
Usually a low shrub to about 0.5m (occasionally to 3m) with stiff, prickly, divided leaves with 9-14 lobes. One-sided 'toothbrush'-style flower clusters 3-10cm long in pink to purple, tipped with a red style, flowering mainly October to February.
Found in
- Blue Mountains National Park