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ACCESSION NO: KFRIw 709
- Scientific Name: Grevillea robusta A. cunn. Ex R. Br
- Family: Proteaceae
- Trade Name: Oak, silky, southern, silver oak
- Common Name: Prickly ash, Southern silky-oak (Australia),lacewood (USA)
- പൊതുവായ പേരുകള്: പ്രിക്ക്ലി ആഷ് , ലേസ് വുഡ്
- Native: Eastern coastal Australia
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- Collected by: P. K. Thulasidas & K. M. Bhat
- General Characteristics: A handsomely straight evergreen tree, tree 8-40 m tall. Leaves 10-34 cm long.Leaflets sessile, entire or pinnatifid, olive green above, silver grey silky hairy beneath. Flowers solitary, Flower color: perianth golden yellow to orange (rarely reddish) outside, inside (partially exposed) with red blotches; style yellow-orange Follicle 2-seeded, olive green.
- Wood Anatomy: Growth rings are fairly distinct. Vessels D diffuse-porous Large to medium, moderately numerous, mostly in tangential clusters; filled with deposits. Rays are broad to very broad, and widely spaced; occasionally fine rays are present in between the broad.
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- Other Accessions of Grevillea robusta A. cunn. Ex R. Br