Banksia Ericifolia

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Common Name:

HEATH BANKSIA

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

1. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide

2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape

4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom
An attractive, fast growing, bushy shrub growing from 4 - 7 m high.
The foliage is fine, heather-like, hence its common name.
It's variability in size and flower colour has led to it being the parent plant of many popular banksia cultivars.
Its large striking spikes of yellow to reddish-orange flowers contrasted with small, linear, light-green to greyish-green leaves.
The cylindrical flower spikes are quite large at 4-6 cm wide and up to 30 cm long.
Flowers open from the top of the spike down. Flowering occurs over an extended period beginning in autumn and continuing through to early spring.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Plant in a well draining, neutral to slightly acid pH, sandy to sandy loam soil.
Grows in the wild in woodland and sometimes partly swampy areas.
Tolerates cold, dryness, lime and salt spray.

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Image Source: John Moss, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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