Banksia Violacea

"Violet Banksia" 

  A shrub up to 1.5 metres tall, with narrow leaves, one to two centimetres long and about 1.5 millimetres wide.

Flowers occur in typical Banksia "flower spikes", inflorences make up of hundreds of pairs of flowers densely packed in a spiral around a woody axis. B. violacea's flower spike is roughly spherical, with a diameter of two to three centimetres.

Unusually for Banksia species, the inflorescences are often violet in colour, ranging anywhere from a dark violet-black through various combinations of violet and greenish-yellow in less pigmented blooms.

Care and propagation notes included.

Packet contains 10 fresh seeds.