red-flowered silky oak

red-flowered silky oak
noun
tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia
Syn: ↑Grevillea banksii
Hypernyms: ↑silk oak

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