Common name: White Silky Oak, Grey Oak, Hill's Silky Oak
Botanical name:Grevillea hillianaFamily:Proteaceae (Silver oak family)
White Silky Oak is a medium to large tree, 8-30 m
tall. Juvenile leaves are lobed and about 25-40 cm long and 15-30 cm
wide. Each leaf has 3-10 lobes about 8-25cm long. Adult leaves are
usually undivided and lanceshaped to ellipticical and about 9-24 cm and
1.5-6 cm wide. The underside of the leaves is silky. White Silky Oak
produces long branched clusters of creamy white cylindrical
flower-spikes, 9-22 cm long. Style is white, curved. Seed-pod is
compressed-ovoid to -broadly ellipsoidal, 1.7-2.6 mm long, smooth.
White Silky Oak is endemic to New South Wales and Queensland in
Australia.
Flowering: May-October.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Botanical Garden, Ooty.
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