photo sharing and upload picture albums photo forums search pictures popular photos photography help login
Don | all galleries >> # more Australian landscapes # >> # Great South-West Road Trip # >> # Porongorup Range # > Bull Banksia (Banksia grandis)
previous | next
14-Oct-2019

Bull Banksia (Banksia grandis)

Cone-like woody fruit in various stages of development:
* behind left: not long finished flowering, showing the woody axis that existed inside the flower 'head';
* at front: maturing. Each orange follicle contains one or two seeds.
* behind right: after seed shed.
See previous photo for the flower of this species.


other sizes: small medium large original auto
previous | next
Jeff Real07-Mar-2020 14:26
Wow!
What a great subject!
An awesome find and perfectly captured!
V
George McCarten25-Feb-2020 01:54
An intriguing plant and flower that I cannot say I've seen the likes of before.
Bert Ooms15-Feb-2020 18:25
Amazing fruit! From another planet, it looks!
Wonderfully presented here!

Best,
Bert
Tom LeRoy15-Feb-2020 12:25
Great capture of this exotic plant flowering. Very interesting to see the stages of development too. V
Gill Kopy13-Feb-2020 19:33
What an amazing plant - it looks like a jewel !! V
Tom Beech13-Feb-2020 14:23
wow..
Yvonne13-Feb-2020 09:44
That is a fresh cone... great to capture 3 stages in one frame Don! v
MarcViskens13-Feb-2020 07:19
Very nice
Nirvan Hope13-Feb-2020 01:15
Great to see all three stages in one photo. Such a fascinating plant.
Pierre13-Feb-2020 00:02
Une splendide photo de ce genre de cône et des explications fort intéressantes! V
Jim Coffman12-Feb-2020 22:35
Wow, that is so neat looking!!
larose forest photos12-Feb-2020 22:12
Exquisite 'cone' and beautiful shot of it. What an unusual and appealing group of plants these are. V
joseantonio12-Feb-2020 21:08
this is really fascinating.
Type your message and click Add Comment
It is best to login or register first but you may post as a guest.
Enter an optional name and contact email address. Name
Name Email
help private comment