AusBonsai

Hi all!

Have been holding back on asking for ID help, whilst I try and figure it out myself.
Alas, after hours of Google searching I have come up trumps.

This plant was collected by a river bed, it stands 40cm tall, has several branches heading upright directly from the base, there is not main trunk.
The leaves are 4cm long and 2mm wide at their thickest point. That are not hard and crunchy, they are soft and supple. they don't not smell of anything. The leaves seem to maily clump at the end of the upright branches, they do not run evenly down the branch.

There were not flowers on it to reference / photo. The bark is a light brown to orange, has some texture, but is mainly smooth.

It was collected in Sydney.

Sorry i'm not being much help. Thanks for any assistance, even if it is just a direction, I am happy to do the leg work to nail it down.

Thanks guys.

this could possibly be a couple of things, im not gonna say it is exactly this but possibly a bracelet honey myrtle or even a hakea.

probably both are wrong, please correct me if so, i have been having a shocker lately with ID's

Anyone care to try and nail it down between the two, bracelet honey myrtle or hakea?

Any others ideas? They both look real close Jamie.

Hi CD,

I believe it is a Grevillea sericea. Wikipedia has a little info and a photo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea_sericea

Joel

Bracelet honey myrtle is the Melaleuca armillaris common name.

Being one of the most commonly cultivated of the Melaleucas, it is probable, not happy with the leaf though.
The description for the leaf of armillaris, is Narrow linear dark green with a conspicuous hooked tip. If you can remember flower colour it is either white some times mauve-pink not very often though.

The natural sites are, on exposed cliffs hilltops and ridges of both granite and sandstone.

They are very adaptable though. I am looking though my books so I might come up with some thing. Unless some one beats me to it.

Cheers Pup