Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Silky Oak
By Estelle Thomson
In October and early November, Brisbane is all blue and gold – blue of jacaranda, and gold of silky oak, the cool blue of the one a foil for the glowing gold of the other.
The silky oak – Grevillea robusta is its formal name – is a fine tree at all times, but its elegantly shaped leaves are of a soft grey-green which makes it so unobtrusive when not in flower that we are suprised afresh each year to find how many we have and what a brave show they make.
The name “silky oak” is derived from a fancied resemblance of the grain of the wood to that of the English oak, but there is no real relationship and not much similarity either to the English oak or the Australian she-oak or casuarina.
The grevilleas, the banksias, and the waratah all belong