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silk oak

DEFINITIONS OF: silk oak

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n any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering

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Grevillea banksii, red-flowered silky oak
tall shrub with cylindrical racemes of red flowers and pinnatifid leaves silky and grey beneath; eastern Australia
Grevillela parallela, silver oak
small slender tree with usually entire grey-green pendulous leaves and white or cream-colored flowers; northern Australia
Grevillea robusta, silky oak
medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia
Grevillea striata, beefwood
tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Type of:
grevillea
any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea
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