- Pronunciation: BANK see ah
- Common Name: Coast Honeysuckle, Coast Banksia
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Derivation:
Banksia: for Sir Joseph Banks
integrifolia: Entire, uncut (Leaves) - Type: Tree
- Family: PROTEACEAE
- Size: to 20 metres
- Flowers: Cream, yellow. mainly summer to winter
- Fruit: Infructescence: Woody, folicles numerous, valves 0.9 to 1.3 cm across
- Vegetation Type: Seacoast.
- Species List: Bush food, NLTalks2010, Cooroibah Airstrip, Biosphere Day Noosa Woods, Peregian Boardwalk, Boreen Point Caravan Park, NNP Parkedge/Alex, NNP service road, Cooroibah26.4.09, Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Leslie Drive Roundabout, TAFE, Tanglewood, Emu Swamp, Noosa River NP, BHNR. Lake Cooroibah West, Arthur Harrold NR, Girraween, Regional Ecosystem 12.2.5. Regional Ecosystem 12.2.14.
Cultural Notes
TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:
Flowers supply a good quantity of Pollen and Nectar during winter months.
Barren porous cones used by early settlers as base for candles.
Honey Production: dark amber, honey source medium, Pollen source medium.
Bush food. Flowers dipped in Water for sweet drinks, or rolled in hands to lick the Nectar.
Seed cones used as hair brushes.
Bush medicine: Coughs and colds - Nectar syrup drunk
Identification Notes
Leaves: flat dull green above white under, 4-10 cm.
Landscaping Notes
Cultivated as an ornamental.
Excellent small Tree for seaside gardens.
Successfully propagated by Coolum Community Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery
Successfully propagated by Mooloolah Native Nursery
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery, Woombye
Associated Fauna
Butterfly host Plant: Fiery jewel. Attractive to Nectar-feeding birds.
