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Heath-leaved Banksia
The most colourful of the eastern Banksia species when in flower, also one of the best plants for attracting honey-eating birds. Naturally occuring in heath or shrub-woodland vegetation, distributed widely on the central coast of New South Wales to the adjacent ranges between Collaroy and Jervis Bay. It chiefly occurs in soils of sandy loam, deep sand or sand over sandstone in well drained areas.
The cylindrical flower spikes of this Banksia species are large at 4 to 6 cm wide and up to 30 cm long. Growth of plant 4 to 7 m.
''Banksia ericifolia'', the heath-leaved banksia, or lantern banksia, is a species of woody shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Australia. It grows in two separate regions of Central and Northern New South Wales east of the Great Dividing Range.
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