Description: Grevillea 'Bonfire'
Photographer: Peter Ollerenshaw
Photographer: Peter Ollerenshaw
Grevillea 'Bonfire'
- File Number
- 1735
- ACRA Field Book Number
- -
- Registration Date
- 19/11/2021
- Application Received
- 24/10/1994
- Family
- Proteaceae
- Cultivar Name
- Grevillea 'Bonfire'
- Origin
- A result of a controlled pollination or manipulated cross Parents - Female: Grevillea johnsonii. - Male: Grevillea wilsonii.
- Characteristics
- Large open shrub 3m x 3m, masses of bright red flower clusters for most of the year.
- Cultivation
- Highly ornamental shrub. Suitable for most soil types. Best in a sunny site but will tolerate some shade. Frost resistant to -6C. Responds well to light pruning.
- Publication
- Elliot, G. (2002), Australian Plants - Grevilleas provide a blaze of colour. Australian Horticulture 100(7): 90
- Colour Coding
- RHS Colour Chart Leaves Green group 147B; Flowers Red Group 45B
- Propagation
- Cuttings from semi-firm new growth
- Applicant Name
- Peter Ollerenshaw
- Uses
- As part of a 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
- ANBG 2938; S Pedersen 1314;
- NSL ID
- -