Description: Grevillea lanigera Celia
Photographer: Peter Ollerenshaw
Photographer: Peter Ollerenshaw
Grevillea lanigera 'Celia'
- File Number
- 1648
- ACRA Field Book Number
- 1805
- Registration Date
- 28/11/2025
- Application Received
- 15/02/2020
- Family
- Proteaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Grevillea lanigera 'Celia'
- Origin
- Chance seedling
- Characteristics
- Small compact shrub 75cm (h) x 1m (w) with red/white flowers in autumn and winter. Comparitor rationale: Grevillea lanigera ‘Celia’ is a small compact shrub to with narrower green leaves whereas. G. lanigera ‘Mt Tamboritha’ is a prostrate spreading groundcover with grey leaves..
- Cultivation
- Grows best in well drained soils. Best in a sunny site but will tolerate some shade. It responds well to light pruning and is drought tolerant and frost hardy
- Publication
- Cultivar Registration Bulletin No. 4 (2024), p 2.
- Colour Coding
- RHS Colour Chart Leaves Green group 137A; Flowers Red/purple group 61b and white
- Propagation
- Cuttings from semi-firm new growth
- Applicant Name
- Peter Ollerenshaw
- Uses
- Groundcover suitable for mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, or as a spectacular feature plant, attracts nectar feeding birds.
- Availability
- Specialist native plant nurseries
- ANBG Accession Numbers
- -
- NSL ID
- -