About Grevillea oleoides Sieber ex Schult.
Grevillea oleoides, commonly called red spider flower, is an erect shrub that usually grows between 0.5 and 3 metres (1 foot 8 inches to 9 feet 10 inches) tall, and has angular branchlets. Its leaves are most often egg-shaped with the narrower end pointing toward the base, or narrowly elliptic to roughly linear. They measure 50 to 140 millimetres (2.0 to 5.5 inches) long and 2 to 20 millimetres (0.079 to 0.787 inches) wide. The leaf edges are turned down or rolled under; the upper leaf surface is wrinkled, and the lower surface is covered with silky to woolly hairs. Flowers are usually arranged at the ends of branches in groups of 12 to 16, on a peduncle that can grow up to 5 millimetres (0.20 inches) long. The flowers are red or deep reddish-pink, and occasionally pink. The pistil is 27 to 36 millimetres (1.1 to 1.4 inches) long. Flowering occurs mainly from August to November, and the fruit is an elliptic follicle 10 to 15 millimetres (0.39 to 0.59 inches) long. This species occurs mainly in the Sydney basin of New South Wales, from Botany Bay and the Georges River to the northern Illawarra region. It grows in dry sclerophyll woodland or heathland, often in moist locations near creeks or swamps.
