Hi everyone, I hope you and yours are doing well.
Last week we took a short three night trip away to the forest regions a couple of hours south of where we live. More on that later.
On our way home I bought a glorious bunch of Banksia baxteri - Baxter's Banksia - for a local shop in Balingup and grown by a local grower. Looking through my photos I am not sure I have seen these in full flower in the wild, though we have seen the heads starting to form nuts when we have been in the Fitzgerald National Park near Hopetoun in spring.
It was named by Robert Brown after the collector, William Baxter, who gathered it in 1829 near King George Sound in Western Australia.
A shrub up to 4 metres tall, it flowers along the south coast of Western Australia, during December to May, mainly January to March.
The lemon coloured flowers grow on the end of the stems and the leaves form a sort of cup shape around the flower.
It has the typical saw-tooth leaf of most banksias, though I learnt that the leaf of each Banksia type is slightly different, which is a handy identification tool.
It grows from seed or cuttings and flowers within 3-4 years. I am thinking I need to grow one, they are so beautiful.
Here are some spent examples we saw flowering in the Fitzgerald River National Park near Hopetoun and Tozers Bush Camp near Bremer Bay along the south coast last August. Your can see the nuts starting to form.
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