White Oak
Grevillea baileyana
family
Proteaceae
origin
Native
declaration
NIL
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Common names
Brown silky oak, Scrub Beefwood, Findlay's Silky, Bailey's Silky Oak, Findlay's Silky Oak.
Grevillea baileyana is a medium to large tree, usually to about 10 metres but occasionally to 30 metres high. Bark is grey, hard and sometimes scaly. Leaves are rich green with the underside of the new growth having a rusty or bronze sheen. This is a particularly useful diagnostic point in the growing period. Juvenile leaves have 5-9 broad lobes but adult leaves are simple, glabrous above and finely silky beneath.
Impact
Impact
White Oak is favoured by disturbance and is a characteristic species of regrowth areas within its native range. Hence, it is probably well adapted to colonising areas of disturbed forest outside its native range. Evidence from this very early stage of invasion suggests that it favours wetter habitats in south-eastern Queensland (i.e. disturbed rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and tea tree swamps). In some cases plants have become established hundreds of metres away from cultivated specimens, in undisturbed natural vegetation.
Location
Location
Characteristics
Characteristics
Similar Species
Similar Species
White Oak is favoured by disturbance and is a characteristic species of regrowth areas within its native range. Hence, it is probably well adapted to colonising areas of disturbed forest outside its native range. Evidence from this very early stage of invasion suggests that it favours wetter habitats in south-eastern Queensland (i.e. disturbed rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and tea tree swamps). In some cases plants have become established hundreds of metres away from cultivated specimens, in undisturbed natural vegetation.
