Grevillea heliosperma R.Br.

Spindly erect shrub or tree 2.5-8 m tall. Leaves 15-40 cm long, pinnatipartite with (1-) 2 (-3) orders of division; primary lobes 7-13, these often again 2-7-partite; ultimate lobes narrowly ovate,-elliptic or-obovate or falcate, rarely sublinear, 3-13 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, pliable, usually petiolulate or occasionally very narrowly decurrent, not pungent; margins shortly recurved to flat; lower surface glabrous to sericeous. Conflorescence simple or to 6-branched; unit conflorescence ascending to decurved, subsecund-conical, strongly acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 60-160 mm long. Flowers twisting to obliquely basiscopic orientation in bud stage; pedicels retrorse, 5-12 mm long. Flower colour: perianth red to pink in bud, greyish mauve at anthesis, red or deep pink afterwards; style red. Perianth glabrous outside, pilose or glabrous inside. Pistil 34-46.5 mm long, glabrous; stipe 9.8-14.0 mm long. Follicle subdiscoid to subglobose, 18.5-35 mm long, thick-walled, glabrous.

A tropical plant. It can grow in the tropics. It grows in sandstone country on rocky slopes. They need a sunny location and well drained soil. It suits hardiness zones 9-12.

The seeds are eaten raw.

Plants are grown from seed. The seed should be fresh. Seed can be soaked in hot water for 24 hours.