A Philips factory once stood where this Australian silky oak now grows, and the garden around it still carries the shape of that history: workers' flowerbeds laid out in the 1960s, redesigned decad...
Silky Oak
Grevillea robusta is not an oak, and it is not related to any tree that uses the name. This page maps every silky oak on the site, 3 so far across 3 cities.
It belongs to the protea family alongside banksias, native to the rainforest fringe of eastern Australia, and the site has three mapped. Brisbane's, in the species' own homeland, is 32 metres tall and roughly a century old, taller than almost any grevillea gets. Setubal's, in Portugal, flowers in spring with dense one-sided combs of orange, more like a bottlebrush than anything most people picture when they hear silky oak. Barcelona's carries the most disputed measurements of the three: a municipal register puts its girth at 4.1 metres, an independent 2017 measurement found barely half that. The wood was once prized by cabinetmakers for a silvery figure in the grain, which is where the common name comes from.
Barcelona
Brisbane
Most grevilleas are shrubs you can see over the top of.
Setubal
For eleven months of the year this is a tall Australian tree that most people walk past.
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