Prunus and Pliny uses "prūnus silvestris" to mean the blackthorn. The word is not native Latin, but is a loan from Greek προῦνον ("prounon"), which is a variant of προῦμνον ("proumnon"), origin unknown. The tree is προύμνη ("proumnē"). Most dictionaries follow Hoffman, "Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen", in making some form of the word a loan from a pre-Greek language of Asia Minor, related to Phrygian. The first use of "Prunus" as a genus name was by Carl Linnaeus in "Hortus Cliffortianus" of 1737, which went on to become "Species Plantarum". In that work, Linnaeus attributes the word to "Varr.", who it
Grevillea spinosa Grevillea spinosa Grevillea spinosa, also known as the spiny grevillea, is an evergreen shrub of the genus "Grevillea" native to an area in the east of the Mid West, northern Goldfields-Esperance and southern Pilbara regions of Western Australia. The prickly shrub typically grows to a height of and has non-glaucous branchlets. It has simple, dissected, subpinnatisect leaves with a blade that is . It blooms from May to September and produces a terminal raceme irregular inflorescence with green or yellow flowers and orange styles. Later it forms red-brown simple hairy oblong to ovoid fruit that is long. The plant has