Shrub or tree of Australian genus, with long,leathery evergreen leaves & cylindrical flower heads called?

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Shrub or tree of Australian genus, with long,leathery evergreen leaves %26amp; cylindrical flower heads called?
I think you mean Banksias, named after Sir Joseph Banks the botanist on Capatin Cook's ship when Australia was 'discovered' by the western world.





Banksias have multifloretted flowerheads, which develop into very characteristeic seed cones. These often require fire (bush fires) for seed-realease / germination. There are many species of Banksias in Australia, with flowers that vary in size and colour from white, yellow, orange, pink, through to dark red. Like the South African Proteas they prefer a 'Mediterranean' climate - hot dry summers and minimal frost.





They also grow outside Australia. I saw Banksias (of a pale yellow colour) growing on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania recently.
Reply:BANKSIA, after Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour to Botany Bay in Australia, in 1777 (does Captain James T. Kirk, of the Enterprise ring a bell?).
Reply:Commonly known as the bottle brush plant

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