Banksia attenuata
Banksia attenuata, commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia or biara to the Noongar people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae. It is found across much of the southwest of Western Australia, from north of Kalbarri National Park down to Cape Leeuwin. It regenerates from bushfire by regrowing from its woody base, known as a lignotuber, or from epicormic buds within its trunk. It has long, narrow, serrated leaves and bright yellow inflorescences, or flower spikes, held above the foliage, which appear in spring and summer.
About Banksia attenuata in brief
Banksia attenuata, commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia or biara to the Noongar people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae. It is found across much of the southwest of Western Australia, from north of Kalbarri National Park down to Cape Leeuwin and across to Fitzgerald River National Park. It regenerates from bushfire by regrowing from its woody base, known as a lignotuber, or from epicormic buds within its trunk. It has long, narrow, serrated leaves and bright yellow inflorescences, or flower spikes, held above the foliage, which appear in spring and summer. The smell of the open flowers has been likened to a peppery Shiraz wine. It can have a lifespan of 300 years and has been widely used as a street tree and for amenities planting in urban Western Australia. The species has had a fairly unonomic history, with only two synonyms, and only a few taxonomic taxonyms for it. It was first collected by Robert Brown in 1801 and published by him in 1810. The specific epithet is ‘narrowed’ and refers to the narrowing of the leaves towards the base of the trunk. The flower spikes age to grey and swell with the development of the woody follicles. Over time, the spikes fade to brown and then grey, and the individual flowers shrivel and lie against the spikes.
However, only a very small percentage of flowers develop into follicles; the field study at Mount Adams yielded a count of 3.3cm per cone per cone at the field field. The seed development occurs over four months from September to December while the flowers mature over seven to eight months, from February to December. A dwarf form is commercially available in nurseries, and can be found in nursery nurseries in the Stirling Range and in the Perth area. In the north of its range as the climate becomes warmer and drier, it is often a stunted multistemmed shrub 0. 4 to 2 m tall. Both forms occur in the vicinity of Hill River but there is otherwise a marked demarcation. The new growth is a pale grey-green, and occurs mainly in the late spring andSummer, often after flowering. The brilliant yellow inflorescence occur from spring into summer and are up 5 cm wide and up to 25–30 cm tall. They are made up of many small individual flowers; a study of 1933 flowers per inflorescence, and another in the Fitzgerald River national Park yielded acount of 1720 flowers. The flowers are terminal, occurring at the ends of one- to three-year-old branches, and displayed prominently above the leaves.
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