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Couch Honeypot

Banksia dallanneyi

Couch Honeypot
Photo: MainlandQuokka, CC BY-SA 3.0

Couch honeypot is a low, prostrate Western Australian shrub in the Protea family that spreads along the ground and regrows from a fire-tolerant underground stem. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and little water once established.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; poor soil and low nutrients suit it.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but needs protection from prolonged freezing.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Banksia dallanneyi, commonly known as couch honeypot, is a species of prostrate shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It only has a short above-ground stem, pinnatipartite or pinnatisect leaves, between thirty and seventy variously coloured flowers and glabrous, egg-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

Banksia dallanneyi grows on flats and rises in a range of soil types between Geraldton and Albany.

Other Banksia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Banksia dallanneyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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