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Banksia subpinnatifida

Banksia subpinnatifida
Photo: Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0

Banksia subpinnatifida is a bushy shrub from southwest Western Australia, growing to about 1.6 m with narrow, toothed leaves and golden yellow flower heads. It is a sun-loving native that is best grown in free-draining, low-phosphorus soil.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let it dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; frost tolerance varies, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Banksia subpinnatifida is a species of bushy shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has more or less linear, pinnatipartite leaves with sharply-pointed teeth on the sides, golden yellow flowers in heads of about sixty, and glabrous, elliptical follicles.

Where it grows

Banksia subpinnatifida is found between Pingelly and Tambellup. Variety inerbis occurs between Boddington and Broomehill, and var. subpinnatifida grows in thick scrub between Pingelly and Narrogin.

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 subpinnatifida 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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