Banksia

The banksia is a paltry tree, about the size of an apple-tree in an English or French orchard, perfectly useless as timber, but affording an inexhaustible supply of firewood. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)

We had different kinds of encounters with four or five different types of treesome we gently brushed againstand then there was a more coercive meeting with a big banksia whose scaly, knobbly bark left a passage of black scales on the paper as if a huge reptile had passed over it. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Comprises seven main vegetation types: closed forest including rain forest and tall eucalypt forest dominated by satinay and brushwood; blackbutt forest; scribbly gum and wallum banksia communities; communities of wet sites often dominated by Melaleuca spp.; coastal communities; Callitris forest and woodlands; and mangrove and salt marsh. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The blackened remains of a banksia tree begins to sprout at the base of the trunk. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)

I am glad the banksia tree is sprouting and that you saw its new growth. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)

The windows of his new room were fitted with green venetians; round the verandah-posts twined respectively a banksia and a Japanese honey-suckle, which further damped the glare; while on the patch of buffalo-grass in front stood a spreading fig-tree, that leafed well and threw a fine shade. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This peculiarity has been remarked of other plants, besides the species of banksia. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A species of banksia was seen to-day under the same meridian as on the Macquarie. ❋ Unknown (2003)

As the party drove on they stumbled upon a little native boy lying fast asleep beneath the shade of a magnificent banksia. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She was looking down at the bindweed that had crept about the roots of a banksia rose she had once given the Pot ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Here by the sea is one of such perfectly classical appearance that every moment one expects to see issue from its marble peristyle the gracefully shaped Ione, Julia or Lydia; there is a sweet little cottage, half buried in banksia roses, which might have been transported from the Branch, Cape May or the Isle of Wight. ❋ Various (N/A)

The face of the hill on the south side of the entrance possesses some good soil; and at the time of our visit* was covered with a profusion of herbage, and studded with groups of banksia, which the colonists call the honeysuckle; the wood of which is useful in ship-building on account of the crooked growth of its stem. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)

There were the lilies, as vigorous as ever, and the white stocks and white pinks and white banksia roses, and the syringa and the jessamine, and at last the crowning fragrance of the acacias. ❋ Unknown (1922)

And then, while these were clearing themselves away, the double banksia roses came out, and the big summer roses suddenly flaunted gorgeously on the walls and trellises. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The big room, once the study, and still shaded by the old banksia rose, had been turned into as luxurious a bedroom as Cherry could make it. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

"You might just as well cut it down at the roots and plant another double banksia." ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

At half-past eight she came out into the garden, to find her father somewhat ruefully studying the tumbled ruins of the yellow banksia rose. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

She rested her broom against the thick trunk of the old banksia, and rubbed her two hands together, and came to the top of the steps to say good-bye. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

Peter, somewhat appalled, in the sunny garden, struggling with the banksia, decided that this was not much to know of a person who might have the audacity to fall in love with an exquisite and innocent Cherry. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)