Family: Proteaceae
Plant: A large shrub or tree up to 16m high with gnarled trunk and branches.
Flowers: Pale yellow flowers with straight styles in dense oblong, cylindrical spikes 12cm long.
Flowering: January-July.
Fruit: Large erect silvery-grey woody cone with many protruding 1-1.5cm wide follicles, each containing 2 winged seeds.
Leaves: Narrow obovate to narrow elliptic, 5-10cm long and 2-2.5cm wide. The mature leaves have entire margins but the juvenile leaves have toothed margins. The leaves are dark green above, silver-white and hairy on the underside.
Habitat: In dry sclerophyll forest, heathland in deeper sandy soils and on sand dunes near the coast.
Features: Shimmering silver appearance of the undersurface of the leaves. Leaves arranged in whorls.
Name:
Banksia After Sir Joseph Banks who collected the first specimens in Botany Bay in 1770.
integrifolia From Latin integer = entire and folius = leaf (referring the entire margins of its mature leaves).
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Type |
Tree, Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Cylindrical, Spike |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Cone |
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Colour |
Grey, Brown, Black |
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Other Features |
Woody, Hard |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Whorled |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire, Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
Rough/Furrowed |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland, |
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Beach strand |
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