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Coast Banksia

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Scientific Name:Banksia integrifolia
Coastal Banksia tree
Coast Banksia tree
Photo: A J Brown

Other Common Names:
Honeysuckle, White Banksia, White Bottlebrush, White Honeysuckle, Honeysuckle Oak.

Status:
Native to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

Plant Description:
A tree that can grow to 15 m tall but generally of less than 3 m wide and to 6 m tall to exposed coastal habitats. With a single stout trunk and rough grey bark, the species is often twisted and gnarled. Leaves are dark green with a white underside, growing in whorls of 3-5. Leaves are 4-20 cm long and 6-35 mm wide, with dentate margins when young but entire margins as adults.

Flowers are cylindrical spikes, 10-12 cm high and 5 cm wide, consisting of several hundred flowers densely packed in a spiral around the main axis. Flowers are greenish or pinkish in bud, and yellow when mature. Fruit consists of ‘follicles’ attached to the maturing ‘cone’; each follicle containing 1-2 black seeds, 6-10 mm long.

Habitat:
Scattered along the coastline east of Queenscliff with isolated inland occurrences along the Glenelg River and on high spots in the Grampians.

Comments:
Often utilised in the nursery trade as garden trees or cut flowers.

Coast Banksia Photos

Coast Banksia trunk
Trunk of Coast Banksia
Photo: A J Brown
Coast Banksia old flower
Old flower of Coast Banksia
Photo: A J Brown

Coast Banksia cone with fruit
Coast Banksia cone with fruit
Photo: A J Brown

Coast Banksia old cone
Old cone of Coast Banksia
Photo: A J Brown

Mature flower cone of Coast Banksia
Mature flower cone of Coast Banksia
Photo: A J Brown

Coast Banksia flower cones of various ages
Coast Banksia flower cones of various ages
Photo: A J Brown

Young leaves of Coast Banksia
Young leaves of Coast Banksia
Photo: A J Brown

Young flower cone of Coast Banksia
Young flower cone of Coast Banksia
Photo: A J Brown

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