Laurel-leaf Grevillea

Description

Grevillea laurifolia, commonly known as the laurel-leaf grevillea, is a spreading prostrate shrub native to eastern Australia. Grevillea laurifolia was described in 1827 by Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel and still bears its original name. The species name is from the Latin laurus "Laurel" and folium "leaf", for the resemblance of its leaves to the laurel. In 1919, French botanist Michel Gandoger described Grevillea amplifolia and G. cordigera, both since reallocated to G. laurifolia ; he described 212 taxa of Australian plants, almost all of which turned out to be species already published.[3] Grevillea × gaudichaudii is a naturally occurring hybrid (since cultivated) derived from G. laurifolia and Grevillea acanthifolia