Silk Oak (Grevillea robusta)

Silk Oak – Fast-Growing Tree with Fern-Like Leaves and Golden Flowers

Grevillea robusta, known as Silk Oak, Silky Oak, or Silver Oak, is a fast-growing, evergreen tree native to eastern Australia. It has distinctive, fern-like, bipinnately compound leaves with silvery undersides. In spring, it produces spectacular, one-sided racemes of golden-orange, toothbrush-like flowers. The wood is valued for cabinetry. It tolerates drought and poor soils once established but is frost-tender when young. It can be invasive in some tropical regions.

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