This compact rounded shrub has a open upright habit with a smooth trunk with no lignotubers. It has narrow dark green serrated linear leaves and the bright orange cylindrical flower heads appear above the foliage from autumn to winter.

Hardiness zones 9 to 10 

Banksia hookeriana is naturally found in a restricted area of Western Australia between Arrowsmith Lake and Eneabba in shrubland growing in yellow to white moderately fertile sandy soils. It prefers an open sunny position and is drought tolerant but frost tender. 

Acorn Banksia is an attractive shrub that is grown for its flowers and is planted in parks and gardens as a specimen or in group plantings in a native setting. The flowers are commonly used in the floristry industry and the plant establishes in 2 to 3 years from seed. It may be difficult to cultivate out of its native region dur to incompatible sol. ID 1324

Banksia (BANK-see-a) hookeriana (hook-er-re-ana)

Banksia’: after 18th century British botanist Sir Joseph Banks; hookeriana, after Hookers, William Jackson and son Joseph Dalton both directors of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew (1785 to 1911)

Proteaceae (pro-tee-AY-see-ee)
Protea Family