Variable shrub to about 2 m tall and wide. Leaves linear to elliptic or cylindrical, to 4 cm long, 3 mm wide, margins rolled under. Flower clusters sometimes branched. Flowers pink to red, occasionally cream at the tip, hairless, bearded inside above the middle; year round, mainly spring. Style red to brownish, pink, cream and pale yellow. Fruit mostly hairy, without dark stripes or blotches.
Available in a wide range of habit and flower colour cultivars and hybrids.
NSW, Vic.
Source: (2002). Proteaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Grevillea rosmarinifolia 'Lara Dwarf'
Compact dwarf plant with greyish leaves and many cream and pink flowers. Int. early 1970s.
Grevillea rosmarinifolia 'Nana'
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