#Banksia

[adventureswithteddy]

Teddy, being a bear, had never encountered these spikey buds in his native habitat. After deciding he had to inspect them, he climbed into this Banksia to get closer to the large yellow flowers. Endemic to the land down under, it felt like every where he looked there was a Banksia popping out of the soil. Without delay he quickly fell for these uniquely pretty shrubs and trees. 

[anonspiceart]

Some monthly prompts I did for Banksia that I still like enough to post here c:

(Art from august 2021)

[fire-ecology]

Banksia menziesii reproductive cycle; flowering inflorescence, to a fresh woody cone bearing seeds, and an open cone after seed release.

Most Banksia cones require the heat from fire to trigger the release of seeds from the protective, woody cone. This ensures the seeds are released into the favourable post-fire environment which has fertile soil from the ash bed, low competition from other plants, and high resource availability as more sunlight and water is available to the seedling 🌱

📸 @fire-ecology

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Banksia undata

The prickly leaves of this shrub call to mind a holly, but the yellow flower clusters show that it belongs in the Protea Family, and in the genus Banksia. It is one of a large number of banksias that were formerly placed in the genus Dryandra, and it was then called Dryandra praemorsa. But all of the Dryandra species have been put into Banksia, greatly enlarging that genus. Banksia undata is a large shrub that can reach a height of up to 10 feet (3 m), and it comes from near the southwestern corner of Australia.

-Brian

[mrmd2]

15 - 27 apr

few pics because the mood and the weather were meh

[redrcs]

Another Banksia, somewhere between Cervantes and Perth

On my travels

[salonduthe]

Kate Vella, Banksia and Windflower with Mangosteen, 2019.

(source)

[colorsoutofearth]

Scarlet Banksia (Banksia coccinea)

Photo by Roland Seitre

[snappingthewalls]

[skydarcyedwards]

New Holland Honeyeater.

They are very common, so I get used to seeing them, but they are really quite pretty. And this one clearly understands composition.

Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

[nuytsia]

Banksia ashbyi

[anonspiceart]

Some colabs I did with @pencilpavlova when we were in the same country for a bit in early 2022! I sketched and lined, they coloured and shaded c:

[fire-ecology]

Banksia grandis (family Proteaceae) in the jarrah forest, south-west Australia

📸 @fire-ecology

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Banksia heliantha

Some of the plants now placed in Banksia were for a long time put in the related genus Dryandra. When DNA evidence showed that the ancestry of the Dryandra species was nested within the Banksia group, all of the plants were transferred into Banksia. This required some re-naming, and the former Dryandra quercifolia could not simply be renamed as Banksia quercifolia, since there was already a Banksia with that name, so it was given the new name of Banksia heliantha on account of its sun-bust flowers. Our plant is having a very fine flowering season this year. From near the south coast of Western Australia.

-Brian

[tcr55]

I was chasing another NSW south coast sunrise, when I got a tap on my shoulder, I turned to be met by yet another banksia man!

[redrcs]

Life cycle

Banksia near the historic whaling station, Albany

On my travels