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Any shrub or tree of a group native to Australia, including the honeysuckle tree. They are named after the English naturalist and explorer Joseph Banks. (Genus Banksia, family Proteaceae.)
Banksias have spiny evergreen leaves and large flower spikes, made up of about 1,000 individual flowers formed around a central axis. The colours of the flower spikes can be gold, red, brown, purple, greenish-yellow, and grey.
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