Banksia integrifolia L.fil.
White-honeysuckle, coast banksia, honeysuckle-oak, white banksia
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Summary
Banksia integrifolia, commonly known as the coast banksia, is a species of tree that grows along the east coast of Australia. One of the most widely distributed Banksia species, it occurs between Victoria and Central Queensland in a broad range of habitats, from coastal dunes to mountains. It is highly variable in form, but is most often encountered as a tree up to 25 metres (82 ft) in height. Its leaves have dark green upper surfaces and white undersides, a contrast that can be striking on windy days.
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About the genus · Banksia
Banksia is a genus of around 170 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes, and woody fruiting "cones" and heads. Banksias range in size from prostrate woody shrubs to trees up to 30 metres (100 ft) tall. More on Wikipedia ›
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At a glance
Also known as Banksia integrifolia var. integrifolia; Banksia integrifolia var. typica Domin.
Cultivation
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (817 mm of 1084 mm) takes 8 months, November to June. Mean temperature moves 9.7 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: May to December.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 1084 mm a year, wettest February at 139 mm, driest September at 58 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
1084 mm a year at the habitat, 817 mm of it November to June. Wettest month February at 139 mm, driest September at 58 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 755 mm to 1525 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 43 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 17 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 45).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 5.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 5.1 °C, the absolute minimum 1.5 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 36.1 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 9.4 °C in July (across the envelope cells 2.2 °C to 13.1 °C), warmest day 24.8 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 5.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 62% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 25 / 21–28 | 24 / 21–28 | 23 / 20–26 | 21 / 17–24 | 18 / 15–22 | 16 / 12–20 | 15 / 12–19 | 16 / 13–21 | 19 / 14–23 | 21 / 16–25 | 22 / 18–26 | 24 / 19–28 |
| Night °C | 19 / 14–23 | 19 / 14–23 | 18 / 12–21 | 15 / 9–19 | 13 / 6–17 | 11 / 4–14 | 9 / 2–13 | 10 / 3–14 | 12 / 6–16 | 13 / 8–18 | 15 / 11–20 | 17 / 13–22 |
| Rain mm | 102 / 49–160 | 139 / 44–211 | 100 / 55–186 | 96 / 58–158 | 91 / 57–142 | 85 / 49–125 | 67 / 42–97 | 61 / 39–81 | 58 / 40–78 | 81 / 61–96 | 102 / 68–130 | 102 / 62–158 |
| DLI | 42 / 40–45 | 37 / 35–41 | 31 / 30–34 | 25 / 22–28 | 19 / 15–23 | 17 / 12–21 | 18 / 13–22 | 24 / 18–28 | 32 / 26–35 | 37 / 35–40 | 40 / 39–42 | 43 / 41–45 |
| RH % | 61 / 58–63 | 62 / 59–65 | 61 / 59–64 | 60 / 58–63 | 60 / 58–63 | 59 / 57–62 | 58 / 56–61 | 56 / 54–60 | 57 / 55–60 | 58 / 56–60 | 60 / 57–61 | 61 / 58–62 |
Each figure is the median across the 853 grid cells holding the 1719 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2472:6624 (-33.625, 151.225). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 1.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 5.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 36.1 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 853 distinct grid cells holding the 1719 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2472:6624 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -33.50_151.250, lapse-corrected -22 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 77 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Greg Tasney, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Lucas Christofides, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).
Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Banksia integrifolia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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Lagunaria patersonia Cow Itch Tree
Doryanthes excelsa Gymea Lily
Hibbertia scandens climbing Guinea-flower
Viola banksii Australian Native VioletOther Banksia 4 in the reference
Banksia ericifolia Heath-leaved banksia
Banksia robur broadleaf banksia
Banksia serrata Proteaceae
Banksia spinulosa golden candlesticks History & registers
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