Botanical atlas
Scarlet Featherflower
Verticordia grandis
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Verticordia grandis carries no real tradition as a culinary or medicinal herb. Its story instead belongs to the Western Australian bush and to the florists and native plant collectors who prize it. It is often called the finest of the featherflowers, a group of roughly one hundred Verticordia species found almost nowhere else on earth, and its flame red to orange blooms, the largest of any Verticordia, have made it a favorite in the cut flower trade since growers began working with Australian natives in the twentieth century. Local wildflower pickers and bushland admirers have long sought it out simply for the beauty of a single flowering branch.
Safety.
Scarlet featherflower is grown as an ornamental and cut flower with no history of use as food or medicine, so it should not be eaten.
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