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Banksia

Index Banksia

Banksia, commonly known as Australian honeysuckles, are a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. [1]

191 relations: Alex George, Antechinus, Archibald Menzies, Aru Islands, Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Native Plants Society, Austromuellera, Banksia 'Giant Candles', Banksia aemula, Banksia archaeocarpa, Banksia ashbyi, Banksia attenuata, Banksia baxteri, Banksia blechnifolia, Banksia brownii, Banksia burdettii, Banksia coccinea, Banksia cuneata, Banksia dallanneyi, Banksia dentata, Banksia elderiana, Banksia ericifolia, Banksia goodii, Banksia grandis, Banksia hookeriana, Banksia ilicifolia, Banksia integrifolia, Banksia integrifolia subsp. monticola, Banksia littoralis, Banksia marginata, Banksia media, Banksia menziesii, Banksia montana, Banksia nobilis, Banksia novae-zelandiae, Banksia oligantha, Banksia oreophila, Banksia pellaeifolia, Banksia petiolaris, Banksia praemorsa, Banksia prionotes, Banksia repens, Banksia robur, Banksia rosserae, Banksia sceptrum, Banksia seminuda, Banksia ser. Dryandra, Banksia serrata, ..., Banksia sessilis, Banksia solandri, Banksia speciosa, Banksia sphaerocarpa, Banksia spinulosa, Banksia subg. Isostylis, Banksia tricuspis, Banksia verticillata, Banksiamyces, Bat, Beekeeper, Biodiversity, Bird, Boat, Botanical illustrator, Botany Bay, Burma Road Nature Reserve, Bushfires in Australia, Canberra, Cape York Peninsula, Careening, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Celia Rosser, Cluster root, Coast, Cockatoo, Colac, Victoria, Conifer cone, Corymbia calophylla, Cultivar, Cut flowers, Cycad, Daniel Solander, Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia), Desert, Disease, Drink coaster, Dryandra moth, Endangered species, Endeavour River, Endemism, Epicormic shoot, Esperance, Western Australia, Eucalyptus diversicolor, Eucalyptus marginata, Exmouth, Western Australia, Eyre Peninsula, Family (biology), Fertilizer, Floristry, Follicle (fruit), Forest, Fred Humphreys, Genus, Georg Forster, Gliding possum, Grevilleoideae, Gynoecium, Heath, Highland, HMS Endeavour, Honey, Honey possum, Honeyeater, Indigenous Australians, Industry, Inflorescence, Insect, James Britten, James Cook, Johann Reinhold Forster, Joseph Banks, Joseph Gaertner, Joseph Knight (horticulturist), Keel, King George Sound (Western Australia), Land clearing in Australia, Larva, Lignotuber, Mammal, Maranoa Gardens, Margaret Pieroni, May Gibbs, Monash University, Moth, Murdoch University, Musgravea, Nectar, Nectarivore, New Guinea, New Zealand, Nomen novum, Nutrient, Oomycete, Orange (colour), Ornamental plant, Otto Kuntze, Pacific Ocean, Passerina (plant), Perianth, Phosphite ester, Phosphorous acid, Phosphorus, Phytophthora cinnamomi, Pimelea, Pink, Pinophyta, Plant, Plant nursery, Proteaceae, Pupa, Pygmy possum, Queensland, Rare species, Red, Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Sclerophyll, Shrub, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, South West, Western Australia, Souvenir, Species, Stirling Range, Supplementum Plantarum, The Banksia Atlas, The Banksias, Thomas L. Sprague, Tourism, Tree, Vancouver Expedition, Violet (color), Watercolor painting, Waverley, New South Wales, Weevil, Western Australia, Whorl (botany), Wildflower, Wood, Woodland, Woodturning, Yellow. Expand index (141 more) »

Alex George

Alexander Segger George (born 4 April 1939) is a Western Australian botanist.

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Antechinus

Antechinus // ('ant-echinus') is a genus of small dasyurid marsupial indigenous to mainland Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.

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Archibald Menzies

Archibald Menzies (15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist.

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Aru Islands

The Aru Islands Regency (also Aroe Islands, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) are a group of about ninety-five low-lying islands in the Maluku province of eastern Indonesia.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) is a project undertaken by Parks Australia Division of Australia's Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA).

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Australian National Botanic Gardens

The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) are located in Canberra and are administered by the Australian Government's Department of the Environment and Heritage.

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Australian Native Plants Society

The Australian Native Plants Society (Australia) (ANPSA) is a federation of seven state-based member organisations for people interested in Australia's native flora, both in aspects of conservation and in cultivation.

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Austromuellera

Austromuellera is a genus of only two known species of medium-sized trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae.

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Banksia 'Giant Candles'

Banksia Giant Candles is a registered Banksia cultivar.

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Banksia aemula

Banksia aemula, commonly known as the wallum banksia, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia archaeocarpa

Banksia archaeocarpa is an extinct species of tree or shrub, known only from a fossil Banksia "cone" recovered from rocks known as the Merlinleigh Sandstone from the Middle Eocene, found in the Kennedy Range in Western Australia.

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Banksia ashbyi

The Ashby's Banksia (Banksia ashbyi) is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia attenuata

Banksia attenuata, commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia or biara as known by the Noongar aboriginal people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia baxteri

The Baxter's banksia (Banksia baxteri), also known as bird's nest banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia blechnifolia

Banksia blechnifolia is a species of flowering plant in the plant genus Banksia native to Western Australia.

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Banksia brownii

Banksia brownii, commonly known as feather-leaved banksia or Brown's banksia, is a species of shrub that grows in southwest Western Australia.

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Banksia burdettii

Banksia burdettii, commonly known as Burdett's banksia, is a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia coccinea

Banksia coccinea, commonly known as the scarlet banksia, waratah banksia or Albany banksia, is an erect shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia cuneata

Banksia cuneata, commonly known as matchstick banksia or Quairading bnksia, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia dallanneyi

Banksia dallanneyi, commonly known as couch honeypot, is a prostrate shrub endemic to Western Australia.

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Banksia dentata

Banksia dentata, commonly known as the tropical banksia, is a species of tree in the genus Banksia.

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Banksia elderiana

Banksia elderiana, commonly known as the swordfish banksia or palm banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia ericifolia

Banksia ericifolia, the heath-leaved banksia (also known as the lantern banksia or heath banksia), is a species of woody shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Australia.

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Banksia goodii

Banksia goodii, commonly known as Good's Banksia, is an endangered shrub of Southwest Western Australia.

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Banksia grandis

Banksia grandis, commonly known as Bull Banksia, Giant Banksia or Mangite, is a common and distinctive tree in South West Western Australia.

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Banksia hookeriana

Banksia hookeriana, commonly known as Hooker's banksia, is a species of shrub of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia ilicifolia

Banksia ilicifolia, commonly known as holly-leaved banksia, is a tree in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia integrifolia

Banksia integrifolia, commonly known as coast banksia, is a species of tree that grows along the east coast of Australia.

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Banksia integrifolia subsp. monticola

Banksia integrifolia subsp.

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Banksia littoralis

Banksia littoralis, commonly known as the swamp banksia, swamp oak, pungura and the western swamp banksia, is a tree in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia marginata

Banksia marginata, commonly known as the silver banksia, is a species of tree or woody shrub in the plant genus Banksia found throughout much of southeastern Australia.

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Banksia media

The southern plains banksia (Banksia media), also known as golden stalk banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia menziesii

Banksia menziesii, commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Banksia.

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Banksia montana

Banksia montana, commonly known as the Stirling Range dryandra, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae endemic to Western Australia, where it grows only in the Stirling Range.

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Banksia nobilis

Banksia nobilis, commonly known as the golden dryandra, great dryandra or kerosene bush, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae which is endemic to Western Australia.

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Banksia novae-zelandiae

Banksia novae-zelandiae is an extinct species of Banksia, known only from fossil leaves found in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Banksia oligantha

Banksia oligantha, commonly known as Wagin banksia, is an endangered species in the plant family Proteaceae endemic to south west Western Australia.

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Banksia oreophila

The western mountain banksia or mountain banksia (Banksia oreophila) is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia pellaeifolia

Banksia pellaeifolia is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.

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Banksia petiolaris

Banksia petiolaris is a species of flowering plant of the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia, where it is found in sandy soils in the south coastal regions from Munglinup east to Israelite Bay.

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Banksia praemorsa

Banksia praemorsa, commonly known as the cut-leaf banksia, is a species of shrub or tree in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia prionotes

Banksia prionotes, commonly known as acorn banksia or orange banksia, is a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia repens

Banksia repens, the Creeping Banksia, is a species of shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia robur

Banksia robur, commonly known as swamp banksia or, less commonly, broad-leaved banksia grows in sand or peaty sand in coastal areas from Cooktown in north Queensland to the Illawarra region on the New South Wales south coast.

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Banksia rosserae

Banksia rosserae is a recently described species of Banksia.

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Banksia sceptrum

Banksia sceptrum, commonly known as the sceptre banksia, is a plant that grows in Western Australia near the central west coast from Geraldton north through Kalbarri to Hamelin Pool.

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Banksia seminuda

Banksia seminuda, commonly known as the river banksia, is a tree in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia ser. Dryandra

Banksia ser.

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Banksia serrata

Banksia serrata, commonly known as old man banksia, saw banksia, saw-tooth banksia and red honeysuckle, is a species of woody shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia sessilis

Banksia sessilis, commonly known as parrot bush, is a species of shrub or tree in the plant genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia solandri

Banksia solandri, commonly known as Stirling Range banksia, is a species of large shrub in the plant genus Banksia.

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Banksia speciosa

Banksia speciosa, commonly known as the showy banksia, is a species of large shrub or small tree in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksia sphaerocarpa

Banksia sphaerocarpa, commonly known as the fox banksia or round-fruit banksia, is a species of shrub or tree in the plant genus Banksia (family Proteaceae).

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Banksia spinulosa

The hairpin banksia (Banksia spinulosa) is a species of woody shrub, of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae, native to eastern Australia.

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Banksia subg. Isostylis

Banksia subg.

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Banksia tricuspis

Banksia tricuspis, commonly known as Lesueur banksia or pine banksia, is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia.

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Banksia verticillata

Banksia verticillata, commonly known as granite banksia or Albany banksia, is a species of shrub or (rarely) tree of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae.

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Banksiamyces

Banksiamyces is a genus of fungi in the order Helotiales, with a tentative placement in the family Helotiaceae.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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Beekeeper

A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Boat

A boat is a watercraft of a large range of type and size.

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Botanical illustrator

A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise illustrates botanical subjects.

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Botany Bay

Botany Bay, an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district.

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Burma Road Nature Reserve

Burma Road Nature Reserve is a conservation area in the City of Greater Geraldton local government area of Western Australia.

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Bushfires in Australia

Bushfires are frequent events during the warmer months of the year, due to Australia's mostly hot, dry climate.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Careening

Careening (also known as "heaving down") is the practice of grounding a sailing vessel at high tide in order to expose one side of its hull for maintenance and repairs below the water line when the tide goes out.

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Carl Linnaeus the Younger

Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger (20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist.

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Celia Rosser

Celia Elizabeth Rosser (born 1930) is an Australian botanical illustrator, best known for having published The Banksias, a three-volume series of monographs containing watercolour paintings of every Banksia species.

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Cluster root

Cluster roots, also known as proteoid roots, are plant roots that form clusters of closely spaced short lateral rootlets.

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Coast

A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Cockatoo

A cockatoo is a parrot that is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea.

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Colac, Victoria

Colac is a small city in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, approximately 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne on the southern shore of Lake Colac and the surrounding volcanic plains, approximately inland from Bass Strait.

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Conifer cone

A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures.

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Corymbia calophylla

Corymbia calophylla, also known as Eucalyptus calophylla, is a bloodwood native to Western Australia.

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Cultivar

The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.

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Cut flowers

Cut flowers are flowers or flower buds (often with some stem and leaf) that have been cut from the plant bearing it.

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Cycad

Cycads are seed plants with a long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today.

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Daniel Solander

Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an Apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia)

The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) was a department of the Government of Western Australia that was responsible for implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Disease

A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in an organism that is not due to any external injury.

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Drink coaster

A coaster, drink coaster, beverage coaster, or beermat is an item used to rest drinks upon.

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Dryandra moth

The Dryandra moth (Carthaea saturnioides) is a species of moth that is considered to be the sole member of the family Carthaeidae.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Endeavour River

The Endeavour River (Guugu Yimithirr: Wabalumbaal), inclusive of the Endeavour River Right Branch, the Endeavour River South Branch, and the Endeavour River North Branch, is a river system located on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Epicormic shoot

An epicormic shoot is a shoot growing from an epicormic bud, which lies underneath the bark of a trunk, stem, or branch of a plant.

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Esperance, Western Australia

Esperance is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately east-southeast of the state capital, Perth.

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Eucalyptus diversicolor

Eucalyptus diversicolor, commonly known as the karri, is a eucalypt native to the wetter regions of southwestern Western Australia.

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Eucalyptus marginata

Eucalyptus marginata, commonly known as jarrah, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia where it is one of most common species of Eucalyptus tree.

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Exmouth, Western Australia

Exmouth is a town on the tip of the North West Cape in Western Australia.

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Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.

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Floristry

Floristry is the production, commerce and trade in flowers.

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Follicle (fruit)

In botany, a follicle is a dry unilocular fruit formed from one carpel, containing two or more seeds.

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Forest

A forest is a large area dominated by trees.

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Fred Humphreys

Frederick William "Fred" Humphreys (11 November 1907 – 3 September 1967) was an Australian government official and an amateur photographer and botanist whose work culminated in the posthumous publication of The Banksia Book, a book on Banksia.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Georg Forster

Johann Georg Adam Forster (November 27, 1754Many sources, including the biography by Thomas Saine, give Forster's birth date as November 26; according to Enzensberger, Ulrich (1996) Ein Leben in Scherben, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag,, the baptism registry of St Peter in Danzig lists November 27 as the date of birth and December 5 as the date of baptism. – January 10, 1794) was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary.

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Gliding possum

There are many different types of gliding possum, sometimes referred to as flying phalangers, or simply as gliders: Australian gliders.

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Grevilleoideae

The Grevilleoideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Proteaceae.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Highland

Highlands or uplands are any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau.

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HMS Endeavour

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.

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Honey

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects.

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Honey possum

The honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus), also known by the native names tait and noolbenger, is a tiny Australian marsupial.

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Honeyeater

The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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Industry

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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James Britten

James Britten (3 May 1846 – 8 October 1924) was an English botanist.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and naturalist of partially Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

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Joseph Banks

Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.

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Joseph Gaertner

Joseph Gaertner (12 March 1732 – 14 July 1791) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788-1792).

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Joseph Knight (horticulturist)

Joseph Knight (7 October 1778 – 20 July 1855), gardener to George Hibbert, was one of the first people in England to successfully propagate Proteaceae.

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Keel

On boats and ships, the keel is either of two parts: a structural element that sometimes resembles a fin and protrudes below a boat along the central line, or a hydrodynamic element.

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King George Sound (Western Australia)

King George Sound is the name of a sound on the south coast of Western Australia.

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Land clearing in Australia

Land clearing in Australia describes the removal of native vegetation and deforestation in Australia.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Lignotuber

A lignotuber is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Maranoa Gardens

Maranoa Gardens began in the early 1890s, when Mr John Middleton Watson purchased 1.4 hectares in Balwyn, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, for a private garden.

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Margaret Pieroni

Margaret Pieroni is a Western Australian botanical artist and botanist who has authored, co-authored and/or illustrated many books on Australian botany, including Brush with Gondwana: Botanical Artists Group of Western Australia (2008), The Dryandras (2006), Verticordia: the turner of hearts (2002), Discovering the wildflowers of Western Australia (1993), Exploring granite outcrops (1990) and Leaf and branch: trees and tall shrubs of Perth (1990).

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May Gibbs

Cecilia May Gibbs MBE (17 January 1877 – 27 November 1969), publishing under the name May Gibbs, was an English Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist.

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Monash University

Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Moth

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.

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Murdoch University

Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai.

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Musgravea

Musgravea is a genus of rainforest tree from north-eastern Queensland.

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Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.

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Nectarivore

In zoology, a nectarivore is an animal which derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of the sugar-rich nectar produced by flowering plants.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nomen novum

In biological nomenclature, a nomen novum (Latin for "new name"), new replacement name (or replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name) is a technical term.

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Nutrient

A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce.

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Oomycete

Oomycota or oomycetes form a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms.

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Orange (colour)

Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Otto Kuntze

Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Passerina (plant)

Passerina is a genus in the plant family Thymelaeaceae.

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Perianth

The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals).

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Phosphite ester

In chemistry a phosphite ester or organophosphite usually refers to an organophosphorous compound with the formula P(OR)3.

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Phosphorous acid

Phosphorous acid is the compound described by the formula H3PO3.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element with symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Phytophthora cinnamomi

Phytophthora cinnamomi is a soil-borne water mould that produces an infection which causes a condition in plants called "root rot" or "dieback".

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Pimelea

Pimelea, commonly known as rice flowers, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae.

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Pink

Pink is a pale red color that is named after a flower of the same name.

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Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Plant nursery

A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size.

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Proteaceae

The Proteaceae are a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Pygmy possum

The pygmy possums are a family of small possums that together form the marsupial family Burramyidae.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)

Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLS MWS (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope.

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Sclerophyll

Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has hard leaves, short internodes (the distance between leaves along the stem) and leaf orientation parallel or oblique to direct sunlight.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Snugglepot and Cuddlepie

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie is a series of books written by Australian author May Gibbs.

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South West, Western Australia

Names such as the South West or "South West corner", in Western Australian contexts, refer to a region that has been defined in several different ways.

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Souvenir

A souvenir (from French, for a remembrance or memory), memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance is an object a person acquires for the memories the owner associates with it.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Stirling Range

The Stirling Range or Koikyennuruff is a range of mountains and hills in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 337 km south-east of Perth.

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Supplementum Plantarum

h Supplementum Plantarum Systematis Vegetabilium Editionis Decimae Tertiae, Generum Plantarum Editiones Sextae, et Specierum Plantarum Editionis Secundae, commonly abbreviated to Supplementum Plantarum Systematis Vegetabilium or just Supplementum Plantarum, and further abbreviated by botanists to Suppl.

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The Banksia Atlas

The Banksia Atlas is an atlas that documents the ranges, habitats and growth forms of various species and other subgeneric taxa of Banksia, an iconic Australian wildflower genus.

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The Banksias

The Banksias, by Celia Rosser, is a three-volume series of monographs containing paintings of every Banksia species.

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Thomas L. Sprague

Thomas Lamison Sprague (October 2, 1894 – September 17, 1972) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy, who served during World War II as commander of the aircraft carrier and took part in the battles of Guam, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

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Vancouver Expedition

The Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795) was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy.

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Violet (color)

Violet is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light between blue and the invisible ultraviolet.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Waverley, New South Wales

Waverley is an eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Weevil

A weevil is a type of beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Whorl (botany)

In botany, a whorl or verticil is an arrangement of sepals, petals, leaves, stipules or branches that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem.

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Wildflower

A wildflower (or wild flower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning it was not intentionally seeded or planted.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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Woodturning

Woodturning is the craft of using the wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation.

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Yellow

Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia

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