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  Banksia aculeate - prickly banksia

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  Banksia aculeate - prickly banksia

A compact shrub with attractive creamy pink coloured flower heads. Unusually for a banksia, the flower heads are downward hanging. Use it as a feature shrub or as a pot plant. It needs very little if any maintenance apart from removing any dead growth. It is native to the Stirling Ranges in Western Australia, growing on gravel soils, and is considered rare. Like all banksias, it is phosphorus sensitive, so a good native fertiliser is best when it comes to feeding time.