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| Coast Banksia photos | Family: Protea (Proteaceae) |
| Scientific Name: | Banksia integrifolia |  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. |
 Trunk of Coast Banksia Photo: A J Brown |  Old flower of Coast Banksia Photo: A J Brown |
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