Cultivation
Many species are cultivated for their distinctive foliage and showy flowers, and they have been extensively hybridised. They can be grown from soft tip cuttings from December-March (in the Southern Hemisphere) or seed.
Many harder-to-grow species can be grafted onto hardy rootstock such as Grevillea robusta.
Grevilleas hybridise extremely easily in cultivation. this has resulted in a huge number of named Grevillea cultivars.
They are also good bird-attracting plants, honeyeaters in particular are common visitors. They are also used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Dryandra Moth.
There is an active Grevillea Study Group in the Australian Native Plants Society for people interested in Grevilleas, both for uses in horticulture and for conservation in the wild.
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