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Description: Grevillea 'Robert's Ripper', Taken: 24 January 2019, [HERBARIUM SPECIMEN] Copyright : Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR) holds copyright
Photographer: Palmer, R.

Grevillea 'Robert's Ripper'

File Number

1587

ACRA Field Book Number

1587

Registration Date

09/11/2016

Application Received

14/10/2016

Family

Proteaceae

Cultivar Name

Grevillea 'Robert's Ripper'

Origin

Self-sown seedling in nursery pot, in owner's property at Kardella, south Gippsland, Victoria.

Characteristics

Bushy shrub to c 1m x 1.5m. Flowers: Pendulous sub-terminal showy toothbrush racemes, deflexed below the line of the branches in a massed display around the perimeter of the plant. Foliage: Leaves 6-7.5 cm long, 6.5-8 cm wide, obovate in outline, secund, divided 3-4 times, usually with trisect secondary division; primary leaf lobes 3-7, ultimate lobes 2-2.5 cm long, 1mm wide, ascending, linear-acerose, stiff; apices of lobes acute, mucro sharp, pungent; upper surface flat to slightly convex, green, subshiny; lower surface packed with short curly white hairs in the grooves, the midvein glabrous, green. Flower: Comparators: Grevillea calliantha, which differs in its deep burgundy-black and dull orange flowers, and less rigid, less prickly leaves. Grevillea 'Carrington Cross', which differs in its large, spreading habit, and its translucent pinky-mauve and grey flowers. Reasons for distinctiveness: Low, compact spreading habit, with showy pink toothbrush flowers prominently displayed at the ends of the branches for many months of the year.

Cultivation

Highly ornamental small shrub. Suitable for well drained soils. Best in a sunny site but will tolerate some shade. Frost resistant to -6C. Responds well to pruning.

Publication

Hort Journal Australia October 2018, Vol 11, Issue 4, Page 41

Colour Coding

RHS COLOUR CHART 1995 Leaves:Upper surface: Green Group 137A; Perianth Red-Purple Group near 70D, Style:Red-Purple Group near 60Ca;

Propagation

Cuttings from semi-firm new growth

Applicant Name

Robert Brown, Nicholson, Victoria (on behalf of ANPSA GrevilleaStudy Group)

Uses

As part of a mass planting or mixed in a shrubbery, or as a feature plant. Attracts nectar feeding birds.

Availability

Specialist native plant nurseries

ANBG Accession Numbers

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NSL ID

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