This small shrub has upright branches that forms an open rounded crown and develops a lignotuber. It has oblong dull green leathery leaves and the tube-shaped flowers appear in a slender yellowish cylindrical flower head  during winter. 

Hardiness zones 9 to 10 

Banksia paludosa is naturally found in Australia growing on the coastal plains of New South Wales from the Illawarra to the southern tablelands in heath or woodlands. 

It prefers a well drained but moist sandy soil in an open full sun position and tolerates drought and salt spray but is frost tender.

Swamp Banksia is grown for its flowers and its bushy habit. It is planted in coastal gardens as a specimen or in borders for bird attracting and screening. It is suitable for coastal and adjoining tableland regions establishing in 3 to 5 years and used around water features. It is ideal along creeks or around swamps tolerating wet soils and is used in small gardens as a specimen plant. ID 2134

Banksia (BANK-see-a) paludosa (pal-U-doe-sä)

‘Banksia’: after 18th century British botanist Sir Joseph Banks;

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