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Cut Leaf Dryandra

Banksia undata

Also called Urchin Dryandra

Cut Leaf Dryandra
Photo: User:JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au

Banksia undata, also called urchin dryandra, is a shrub from southwest Western Australia that grows up to about 3 m with wavy, serrated leaves and pale yellow flower heads. It is a Proteaceae species that needs well-drained, low-nutrient soil and full sun, and it is rarely grown outside its native region.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; the species is adapted to a Mediterranean climate with dry summers.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly, low-phosphorus soil, as in its native jarrah forest.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; frost tolerance is not well documented.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Banksia undata, commonly known as urchin dryandra, is a species of shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It has sessile, wedge-shaped, wavy, serrated leaves, pale yellow flowers in heads of between 80 and 160, and later up to eight follicles in each head.

Where it grows

Urchin dryandra occurs between Clackline, Dwellingup and Bannister where it grows in jarrah forest. Variety splendens is found from the Brookton Highway south to Bannister and var. undata between Clackline and Dwellingup.

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 undata 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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