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Banksia lullfitzii

Banksia lullfitzii
Photo: MainlandQuokka, CC BY-SA 3.0

Banksia lullfitzii is a much-branched, sprawling shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 0.8 to 2 m tall with golden-orange flowers from March to May. It is a wild species grown mainly by enthusiasts of Australian native plants, and it needs free-draining sandy soil and full sun.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates dry conditions and dislikes waterlogging.
Soil
Deep, free-draining sandy soil, low in phosphorus; avoid rich potting mixes.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates light frost once established.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Banksia lullfitzii is a species of shrub that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has linear leaves with widely-spaced, sharply-pointed teeth on the sides, golden-orange to orange-brown flowers, and later, up to thirty follicles in each head.

How to grow it

Seeds do not require any treatment, and take around 26 days to germinate.

Where it grows

Banksia lullfitzii is known from a small number of scattered populations that occur north of Esperance as far as Koolyanobbing. These occur on deep yellow sands in heath or mallee-heath. Although not many populations are known, the species is not considered under threat, as the area has poor access and is very poorly surveyed, making it likely that the species is under-recorded. Also, a significant proportion of known populations occur in nature reserves such as the Boorabbin National Park, and the area's low rainfall makes it unlikely that the unprotected land will be cleared for agriculture.

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 lullfitzii 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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