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Keywords: Proteaceae | Banksia praemorsa Andrews | University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum, California, USA
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It's been a bit of a trend on BPotD lately to feature plants with flower colours different than what is usually encountered. The cut-leaf banksia in today's photograph illustrates the infrequently-found yellow-flowered variation of this species. The Flora of Australia Online describes the flower colour of Banksia praemorsa as follows: “Flowers red-maroon where exposed, otherwise pale greenish yellow, pink inside; limb greenish; rarely all yellow”. The typical red-maroon coloured flower can be seen on the Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plant's page on Banksia praemorsa.
The ASGAP page also explains the epithet praemorsa, which means “bitten off”. This is in reference to the leaves. Photographs of the leaves are available via FloraBase: Banksia praemorsa. This latter link also shows a detailed distribution map for this species, which is native to a strip of wooded or shrubby land along the southern coast of Western Australia.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at February 13, 2008 10:31 AM
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Posted by: Sue in Bremerton WA at February 13, 2008 11:16 AM
This has been photographed on Banksia Farm Mt. Barker
Posted by: krystyna Szulecla at February 13, 2008 11:22 AM
The bees were diving into the deepest parts of the inflorescence and coming back out. I probably have a shot of a disappearing bee-butt from the same day! =)
Posted by: Eric in SF at February 13, 2008 12:00 PM
It looks like the bee is doing some weaving,working it's way up the plant.
Posted by: Dee49 at February 13, 2008 12:35 PM
Hands up everyone who wishes they could be a bee for a day!
Posted by: Barbara Lamb at February 13, 2008 12:41 PM
Call on me! Call on me!
Posted by: Meg Bernstein at February 13, 2008 2:11 PM
Ah ha! So this was the inspiration for the drive-through car wash.
Posted by: c.d. at February 13, 2008 5:07 PM
Alrightey - I did shoot bee-butts!
View Large size to see them clearly. =)
Posted by: Eric in SF at February 14, 2008 10:56 PM
What a great Photo and with such brillant colour and with the blue sky. It is great to see the bee as it shows how large the flower is.
Thank you
Margaret-Rae
Posted by: Margaret-Rae Davis at February 18, 2008 9:53 AM
What a nice surprise to see a BPotD taken at the Arboretum here on campus, which inspired me to do two things. First I emailed our UCSC Arboretum staff, they were unfamilar with BPotD and very pleasantly surprised. Secondly I realize I need to take more walks through the UCSC Arboretum, and appreciate the wonderful resource so easily available to me. Thanks - judy
Posted by: Judy Scarborough at February 19, 2008 11:51 AM
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What an awesome picture of an awesome blossom. I think it is also nice to have the bee there for scale. Is each one of those bristles hollow with nectar in them for the bees, or pollen I guess, or is it between the bristles. Very interesting plant. Thanks for showing me something new yet again.