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Once widely known as ‘Wallum’ prior to European settlement, our magnificent banksias range across this vast land of ours. The genus contains around 75 different species and is part of the Proteaceae family which includes grevilleas and waratahs. Many of our striking banksias come from the west, but we do have some really great ones on the eastern side of the country.
Undoubtedly the best known of our eastern banksias owes its notoriety to the story by May Gibbs about the Big Bad Banksia Man, Banksia serrata. I still remember being a bit frightened as a kid by that scary old bloke! But over the years I’ve come to love that ‘Old Man Banksia.’ It’s a prolific plant through our local bushland and like all banksias, it has an amazing capacity for survival and reproduction. The spent flower-heads or cones are retained on the bush with many containing unopened follicles just waiting to burst open and release its seed after a bushfire. Some old cones will have no fo
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