Adenanthos sericeus “Paz”

Tall shrub with silver grey leaves, finely divided. Red flowers. Adenanthos sericeus, commonly known as Woolly Bush, is a shrub native to the south coast of Western Australia. It has bright red but small and obscure flowers, and very soft, deeply divided, hairy leaves. Flowers occur nested within the foliage at the end of a branch. A. sericeus mostly grows as an upright, spreading shrub but occasionally takes the habit of a small tree. It has erect branches that are covered in short hairs when young, but these are lost with age. Leaves may be up to 40 mm long, and repeatedly divide by threes into from 5 to 50 narrow laciniae, circular in cross-section. Flowers are red, and occur alone or in small groups, hidden within the foliage at the end of branches. The fruit is an oval-shaped achene about 5 mm long.