- Pronunciation: BANKS-ee-ah in-teg-re-FOAL-ee-ah
- Common Name: Inland Banksia
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Derivation:
Banksia: for Sir Joseph Banks
integrifolia: Entire, uncut (Leaves) - Type: Tree
- Family: PROTEACEAE
- Size: to 25 metres
- Flowers: Green, yellow, mainly summer to winter
- Fruit: Infructescence: woody, folicles numerous, valves 0.9 to 1.3 cm across
- Vegetation Type: Dry Eucalypt Forest, wide range of habitats from coastal dunes to montane forests.
- Species List: Cooroy Primary School, Fraser Island, Cranks Creek, TAFE Noosa Banks BHNR, NNS,
Cultural Notes
TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:
Honey Production: dark amber, honey source medium, Pollen source medium.
Bush medicine: Coughs and colds - Nectar syrup drunk
Timber: Wood used to make boat knees.
Bush food. Flowers dipped in Water for sweet drinks, or rolled in hands to lick the Nectar.
Seed cones used as hair brushes.
Identification Notes
Leaves: shiny above with wavy margins 10-20 cm long
Landscaping Notes
Noosa Council Preferred Species list . Suitable Plant for appropriate soil conditions (see Vegetation type)
Successfully propogated by Noosa & District Landcare.
Associated Fauna
Butterfly host Plant: Fiery jewel. Attractive to Nectar-feeding birds.
Comments
B. integrifolia subsp. integrifolia occurs typically on consolidated sand dunes close to the coast and along tidal inlets B. integrifolia subsp. compar occurs in a wide range of habitats from coastal dunes to montane forest, in SEQ in open forest in sand or loam, sometimes in seasonally swampy ground. Some populations in SEQ are intermediate between the two subspp.
