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Banksia alliacea

Banksia alliacea
Photo: Engraved by J. Watts, Public domain
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Banksia alliacea is a species of shrub that is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It grows to 2 m high and wide, with shaving brush-shaped inflorescences that smell of onions.

How to grow it

Banksia alliacea has horticultural potential as a foliage plant. It grows more readily in soils with some clay content rather than straight sand.

Where it grows

The species is found in the Stirling Range in Western Australia, ranging east to Ongerup and Boxwood Hill and south to Manypeaks. There are outlying populations at Lort River and Cape Arid. It grows in flat areas on clay-loam or sandy loam with a yearly rainfall of 400 to 800 millimetres (16 to 31 in).

Other Banksia plants

Banksia acanthopoda · Prickly Banksia · Banksia acuminata · Wallum Banksia · Cactus Dryandra · Northern Banksia · Yilgarn Dryandra · Banksia archaeocarpa · Banksia arctotidis · Banksia armata var. armata · Banksia armata var. ignicida · Prickly Dryandra

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Banksia alliacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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