silk oak

1. Any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering (synset 112238103)
   is a type of: grevillea - any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea
   subtypes:

   • 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
   • beefwood, grevillea striata - tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
   belongs to: genus grevillea - large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers

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