''Grevillea'' 'Peaches and Cream' is new and much sought-after

grevillea ''Grevillea'', commonly known as spider flowers, is a genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Plants in the genus ''Grevillea'' are shrubs, rarely trees, with the leaves arranged alternately along the b ...

cultivar which has been recently released in Australia. It is a shrub that grows to 1.2 by 1.5 metres (4–5 ft) in height and width and has bright green attractive deeply divided leaves, around long by in width. The foliage takes on a bronze sheen in winter. The

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s are about long by wide and open yellow initially but later add various shades of pink and orange. The cultivar is a cross between a white-flowered form of the Queensland species ''

Grevillea banksii ''Grevillea banksii'', commonly known as Banks' grevillea, Byfield waratah, red flowered silky oak and dwarf silky oak, and in Hawaii as kāhili flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is ...

'', and '' G. bipinnatifida'' from Western Australia, and was selected from a plant which arose in a garden in Logan Village, a southern suburb of Brisbane, in 1997. It was watched and propagated by Queensland horticulturists and SGAP members Dennis Cox and Janice Glazebrook, finally being patented in 2006. It is of the same parentage as 'Superb' and 'Robyn Gordon' and has similar prolific and sustained flowering. ''Grevillea'' 'Superb' has a deeper orange coloration in the flowers, while ''G.'' 'Robyn Gordon' is red. Its small size lends itself to use in a small garden, and it is bird attracting. It tolerant of a wide range of conditions, including humidity as well as drought, and frost down to . Although not yet recorded, the cultivar is very similar to several cultivars which have been known to cause allergic

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for certain individuals who come into contact with it, so caution is advised.

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Australian Cultivar Registration Authority: ''Grevillea'' 'Robyn Gordon'
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