banksia

How To Use banksia In A Sentence

• The genus is closely related in evolution appearance to the Australian genus Banksia.
• He's credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, Banksia, all well known species in Australia where his mark was firmly left.
• There are a great many flowering bushes such as the distinctively Australian banksias, and red-tailed skinks are often seen sunning themselves on the rocks.
• A species of banksia was seen to-day under the same meridian as on the Macquarie. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
• Honey is procured by steeping the cones of the Banksia or other melliferous flowers in water. An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre
• 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. Fraser Island, Australia
• Fairy-wrens build domed nests of grass and bark fibre, lined with soft down from zamia palms, banksia wool or feathers.
• 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. The Bushman — Life in a New Country
• The blackened remains of a banksia tree begins to sprout at the base of the trunk. Tropic Temper
• Her own canvas was hidden by draperies of dull gold silk, and beside it, on a carved stool, sprays of Banksia roses and honeysuckle soared plumelike from a vase of beaten bronze. The Great Amulet