Cultivars of hybrid origin

B. 'Birthday Candles' PVJ 3(1)5.

B. 'Waite Crimson' Medium to tall, dense shrub to about 3.5 m tall. Leaves greygreen, toothed. Flowers in compact crimson and grey-hairy heads with crimson styles; spring, mostly Oct. A  B. coccinea selection released in 1992 by the Waite Institute, SA. Popular as a cut flower. PVJ 8(2)8.

B. 'Waite Flame' Medium shrub with numerous flowers having hairy grey perianths and orange red styles; peak flowering time July. B. hookeriana × B. prionotes, raised at the Waite Institute, SA. Popular as a cut flower. PVJ 8(2)9.

B. 'Waite Orange' Large, dense shrub 3-8 m tall, 3-6 m wide. Leaves narrow with toothed edges. Buds large, white, opening to golden orange; autumn-winter. B. hookeriana × B. prionotes, raised at the Waite Institute, SA. Popular as a cut flower. PVJ 4(2)9.

Banksia 'Giant Candles'

Medium shrub similar to B. ericifolia. Leaves entire, linear, margins rolled under. Flower spike deep orange, up to 40 cm long; summer and autumn. A hybrid that arose at the nsy of Sylvia Peach, Brisbane, probably B. ericifolia var. ericifolia × B. spinulosa var. spinulosa. Exceptional screening and bird plant. Further crosses have been made.

Banksia 'Lemon Delicious'

Hybrid between B. spinulosa and B. 'Giant Candles'.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Proteanae
order      Proteales
family       Proteaceae
genus        Banksia L.f.