Monday, May 16, 2011

Banksia


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Banksia cuneata (Quariading Banksia or Matchstick Banksia): photo by gnangarra, 28 September 2009

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Banksia dallaneyi (Couch Honeypot), Kalamunda National Park, Western Australia: photo by SatuSuro, 13 September 2008

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Banksia 'Yellow Wing', Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia: photo by Melburnian, August 2008

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Banksia pulchella, Kings Park, Western Australia: photo by Cas Liber, 21 February 2007

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Banksia speciosa, Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco Botanical Gardens: photo by Eric Hunt, 24 December 2005

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Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) feasting on Banksia integrifolia var. integrifolia, Waverley, New South Wales: photo by Cas Liber, 4 November 2007

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The great south sea caterpillar, transform'd into a Bath butterfly, showing the metamorphosis of Sir Joseph Banks from a caterpillar to a butterfly upon his investiture with the Order of the Bath as a result of his South Sea expedition. Draped with the ribbon, and wearing the jewel, of Bath, he rises, chrysalis shaped, from the mudflats on butterfly wings emblazoned with sea creatures towards a radiant sun enclosing a crown: James Gillray (1757-1815), published by H. Humphrey, London, 4 July 1795 (Library of Congress)