Hakea victoria seeds grow into the royal hakea perhaps the most spectacular foliage plant in the entire Australian flora, endemic to the subtropical biome of south-western Western Australia. Described by J.Drummond. The epithet victoria honours Queen Victoria (18191901). The royal hakea produces broad, stiff, cup-shaped leaves in extraordinary concentric zones of colour: new growth is vivid green, and as leaves age they pass through zones of cream, orange-yellow, and finally brick-red to deep crimson at the leaf centre with all stages and colours often present simultaneously on one plant. The effect is extraordinary and entirely unlike any other Australian native or garden plant. Flowers are inconspicuous. An extremely rare and prized collector’s plant. Family Proteaceae.
Full sun; well-drained, sandy, phosphorus-poor soils; warm Mediterranean conditions. ESSENTIAL: do not use phosphorus fertilisers. One of the world’s most spectacular foliage plants.
Hakea victoria the royal hakea is the most visually extraordinary foliage plant in the Australian flora: the broad, stiff leaves displaying concentric colour zones from green through cream and orange to deep crimson-red, all simultaneously present on one plant, create an effect with no parallel in the botanical world, a south-western Australian endemic of breathtaking rarity and botanical uniqueness named in honour of Queen Victoria.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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