Banksia nivea
species of plant
Banksia nivea, commonly known as honeypot dryandra, is a species of rounded shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. The Noongar peoples know the plant as bulgalla. It has linear, pinnatipartite leaves with triangular lobes, heads of cream-coloured and orange or red flowers and glabrous, egg-shaped follicles.
Description
Banksia nivea is a rounded, much-branched shrub that typically grows to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in) high and wide but does not form a lignotuber. It has linear, pinnatipartite leaves that are 200–450 mm (7.9–17.7 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide on a petiole 10–60 mm (0.39–2.36 in) long. There are between 45 and 85 triangular lobes on each side of the leaves. Between seventy and ninety cream-coloured and orange or red flowers are borne in head on the ends of branches with oblong to egg-shaped involucral bracts 18–22 mm (0.71–0.87 in) long at the base of the head. The perianth is 25–38 mm (0.98–1.50 in) long and the pistil 32–45 mm (1.3–1.8 in) long. Flowering occurs in April or from July to November and the follicles are egg-shaped, 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) long and almost glabrous.
Taxonomy and naming
Banksia nivea was first collected by Jacques Labillardière in the vicinity of Esperance Bay between 15 and 17 December 1792, during a search for the naturalist Claude Riche, who had become lost on the Australian mainland.
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