Proteaceae FAMILY

Banksia marginata

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Banksia marginata is a very variable evergreen shrub or tree. Typically a shrub around 2 metres tall with a similar spread, it can sometimes become a tree up to 12 metres tall, and also occurs as a scrambling, prostrate plant. It sometimes produces suckers[ 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. , 397 Title Australian Native Plants Society Publication Author Website http://anpsa.org.au/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A series of fact sheets on Australian plants. Good photographs, brief description and information on uses, habitat, range, cultivation etc. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and source of wood. It is often grown as an ornamental, especially in Australian gardens

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeAustralia - Southern Australia, New South Wales, southern Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania.

HabitatSandy and clay loams, shale, peaty loam, rocky soil (quartzite, sandstone, limestone and granite). In shrubland, woodland and forest, sometimes in swamps and coastal dunes to the mountains[ 260 Title Conservatory and Indoor Plants Volumes 1 & 2 Publication Author Phillips. R. & Rix. M. Publisher Pan Books, London. Year 1998 ISBN 0-330-37376-5 Description Excellent photos of over 1,100 species and cultivars with habits and cultivation details plus a few plant uses. Many species are too tender for outdoors in Britain though there are many that can be grown outside. , 286 Title Flora of Australia Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/abif/flora/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description The full information from the Flora of Australia - on-line. An excellent resource. ].