Banksia is a genus of almost 170 species of the Proteaceae family. These wildflowers and popular garden plants of Australia are easy to recognise due to their characteristic flower spikes and fruiting heads and cones. Banksias vary in size from horizontal woody shrubs to 30 meters tall trees. They grow in different landscapes – forest, shrubland, rainforest, and other landscapes, but not in Australia's deserts.
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