12. On the hill to your right is occidentalis or Red Swamp Banksia, a tall A publication of the or small tree with whorled, linear green Friends of the Australian and lime-green buds developing into golden National Botanic Gardens with prominent red styles (photo below left). This is native to the south coast of . 10-23 February 2021 Featuring the of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT. Written and illustrated by ANBG Friends Rosalind and Benjamin Walcott

Today we will walk past the café to the Banksia Garden 13. Again on your right is , or Blue Banksia, a tall shrub with long narrow leaves which will develop grey to mauve flowers, aging to dull yellow (photo above right). The attractive new growth seen here is velvety red brown. This plant is native to Hinchinbrook Island and the adjacent mainland in Queensland. 14. Still on your right is , or Showy Banksia, with green triangular leaves and pale yellow flowers (photo below left). This tall shrub is native to the area around Esperance, Western Australia.

1. After you leave the Visitor Centre, on your right, is Spyridium burragorang, a long-flowering shrub with unusual white bracts surrounding a central cluster of flowers (photo above). The occurrence of this plant is confined to the Lake Burragorang district in the Blue 15. Down to your left, in front of the building, in a Mountains of New South Wales and it is pot, is Banksia candolleana, or Propellor considered rare in the wild. Banksia, a many-stemmed shrub with truncate linear leaves and rounded golden-yellow flowers 2. Again on your right is Eremophila nivea, a which persist as brown brushes after flowering is small shrub with mauve tubular flowers and over (photo above right). This plant is native to the striking silver-grey foliage covered in hairs (photo west coast of Western Australia near Arrowsmith next page top left). This plant is native to the River. southern west coast of Western Australia 6. Again on your right is Banksia baxteri, or 9. Bear right down the path to see on your Bird’s Nest Banksia, with upright, stiff, right Banksia sphaerocarpa var. triangular pink-tipped foliage and greenish Dolichostyla with the largest golden flowers of flowers (photo below). This plant is native to the varieties of Banksia sphaerocarpa (photo southwestern Western Australia between below). This plant is native to a small area east Albany and Esperance. of Hyden, Western Australia.

3. Cross the bridge and go past the café to see on your left Epacris longiflora ‘ Pink’, a very floriferous small shrub covered in slender pink bells with white tips (photo above right).

7. Still on your right is , commonly known as Acorn Banksia or Orange 10. Again on your right is Banksia Banksia, which has toothed, grey-green linear occidentalis mini graft, or Red Swamp foliage and white felty cones which develop a Banksia, a small shrub with whorled, linear pale orange colour when mature (photo green leaves and lime-green buds developing below). This plant is native to southwestern into gold flowers with prominent red styles Western Australia. (photo below). This plant is native to the south coast of Western Australia. 4. On your right is Callistemon viminalis, a medium sized tree with drooping foliage and brilliant red brushes (photo above). This plant, also known as Weeping Bottlebrush, often grows along watercourses in its native New South Wales and Queensland.

8. On your right is with broad, 11. Still on your right is Banksia toothed leathery leaves and bright yellow sphaerocarpa var. caesia with attractive flowers (photo below). This plant is native to bluish foliage and shaggy, golden flowers the south coast of Western Australia. (photo below). This plant is found in southwestern Western Australia.

5. Continue on to the Banksia Garden to see on your right , or Possum Banksia, with dark green toothed foliage and grey furry flowers (photo above). These flowers can be very large when the plant is mature and can age to orange. This plant is native to the south coast of Western Australia.