Grevillea eriostachya Lindl.

Shrub 1.5-2 m high, bushy at base with emergent flowering branches. Leaves 5-30 cm long, mostly entire on flowering branches, otherwise 2-7-partite, sometimes lower lobes again sparingly divided; lobes and entire leaves linear, 1-2 (-2.7) mm wide, not pungent; margins angularly refracted; lower surface enclosed except for midveins, hairy in grooves. Conflorescence simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence erect, conico-secund, strongly acropetal, usually borne well clear of foliage on peduncular canes to c. 40 cm long; ultimate floral rachis 75-200 mm long. Flower colour: perianth and style green in bud becoming bright yellow. Perianth loosely tomentose to sublanate, sometimes with erect simple glandular hairs mixed with the biramous hairs; indumentum often matted with a glandular exudate. Pistil 14.5-22 mm long; style usually with minute erect simple hairs in middle third or rarely glabrous, lacking a dorsal hump below style-end. Follicle 15-22 mm long, tomentose with mixed biramous and simple-glandular hairs.

A tropical plant. It grows in arid areas. It can grow in semiarid areas. It needs well drained, dry soil and full sun. It can stand light frost. It suits hardiness zones 9-11.

The nectar from the flowers can be sucked or a drink made by soaking the flowers in water.

Plants are grown from seeds. Seeds germinate in 20-75 days. Plants can also be grown from cuttings.