Woolly bush

(Adenanthos sericeus)

galery

Description

A, A. sericeus mostly grows as an upright, spreading shrub but occasionally takes the habit of a small tree up to 5 m 16 ft tall. It has erect branches that are covered in short hairs when young, but these are lost with age. Leaves may be up to 40 mm 1.6 in long, and repeatedly divide by threes into from 5 to 50 narrow laciniae, circular in cross-section, with a diameter of less than 0.5 mm(0.02 in

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Proteales
Family:Proteaceae
Genus:Adenanthos
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