Family: Proteaceae
Plant: A multi-stemmed shrub up to 2m high with a lignotuber.
Flowers: Golden yellow to orange flowers having red or purplish-black hooked styles with yellow tips. The flowers form a thick cylindrical spike up to 15cm long.
Flowering: March-September.
Fruit: Hairy, crowded, woody cones with many 1-2cm wide somewhat flattened follicles, each containing two winged seeds.
Leaves: Linear, narrow and upright 3-8cm long and 1-2mm wide with recurved margins, stiff, tough and usually toothed near the tip.
Habitat: Widespread in heathland and dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Narrow, upright leaf usually with toothed margin near tip.
Name:
Banksia After Sir Joseph Banks who collected the first specimens in Botany Bay in 1770.
spinulosa From Latin spinula = a small thorn or spine and osus = many (referring to the spiny appearance of the plant).
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Cylindrical, Spike |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow, Orange |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Cone |
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Colour |
Grey, Brown, Black |
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Other Features |
Woody |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire, Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
Corky/Flaky |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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