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Banksia idiogenes

Banksia idiogenes is a tufted, hairy-stemmed shrub from Western Australia, grown for its deeply lobed leaves and strongly scented red and white flower heads. It is a rare species from a small area near Newdegate and is grown mainly by enthusiasts and in native gardens, needing full sun and very good drainage.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and keep moist only during establishment.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, very well-drained soil low in phosphorus.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from hard freezes below about -5 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia (SW. of Newdegate)
Climate
subtropical

About

Banksia idiogenes is a species of tufted shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. It has hairy stems, deeply pinnatifid leaves, distinctive, scented, red and white flowers in heads of about eighty, later several glabrous, egg-shaped follicles in each head.

Where it grows

Banksia idiogenes grows in kwongan and is only known from several small populations in a small area near Newdegate in the Mallee biogeographic region.

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 idiogenes 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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