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HAIRPIN BANKSIA FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Hairpin Banksia
Description
The Hairpin Banksia is usually seen as a small to medium shrub to two metres tall, but some forms grow to small tree size. The leaves are long and narrow and serrated along the length of the leaf or just near the leaf tip. The leaves may be rolled downward so that the serrations are not apparent. It produces orange, golden red or yellow bottlebrush shaped flower spikes in autumn and winter. the cylindrical flower spikes vary from 6cm to about 15 cm tall and 6 to 7 cm wide. There are four different varieties which vary in flower colour and leaf size: B. spinulosa var. spinulosa, B. spinulosa var. collina, B. spinulosa var. cunninghamii, and B. spinulosa var. neoanglic.
Habitat
usually found as an understorey plant in heathland, open woodland and forest.
Distribution
Banksia spinulosa is found on the east coast of Australia from around Maryborough in Queensland down through eastern New South Wales to eastern Victoria. There a few isolated populations further north on the east coast of Queensland around Cairns.
Growth Characteristics
Height (m): 2 - 4
Spread (m): 2 - 5
Soil Texture: sand, loam, clay
Soil pH: acid soils, neutral soils
Frost Sensitivity: resistant
Minimum Rainfall (mm): 600
Flower Colour: yellow
Flower Season: autumn, winter
(source: SA State Flora Catalog)
Wildlife Interest
attracts honeyeaters
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Proteales | | Family: | Proteaceae | | Genus: | Banksia | | Species: | spinulosa | | Common Name: | Hairpin Banksia |
Relatives in same Genus
Banksia aculeata
Banksia aemula
Banksia anatona
Banksia ashbyi
Banksia attenuata
Banksia audax
Banksia baueri
Banksia baxteri
Banksia benthamiana
Banksia blechnifolia
Banksia brownii
Banksia burdettii
Banksia caleyi
Banksia candolleana
Banksia canei
Banksia carlinoides
Banksia chamaephyton
Banksia coccinea
Banksia conferta ssp conferta
Banksia conferta ssp penicillata
Banksia cuneata
see A-Z list for more ...
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