Australian Native Plants

  Banksia 'Austraflora Yellow Wing'


Banksia 'Austraflora Yellow Wing' photo
Banksia 'Yellow Wing' (cultivated, labelled) Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia

Photograph by Melburnian. Some rights reserved.    (view image details)




PLANT FACTS

Description
Banksia 'Austraflora Yellow Wing' is a dense rounded shrub with fine foliage and large cylindrical orange flower spikes in summer, autumn and winter. It is a hybrid between Banksia 'Giant Candles' and Banksia spinulosa var. collina from Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland (see the Banksia 'Yellow Wing' page on http://en.wikipedia.org).

Growth Characteristics
Height: 1.5m - 2m
Spread: 1.5m

Propagation
cuttings

Wildlife Interest
attracts honeyeaters

Classification
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Proteales
Family:Proteaceae
Genus:Banksia
Variety:'Austraflora Yellow Wing'


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
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