Orange dryandra

Description

Banksia aurantia, commonly known as the orange dryandra or Little Darkin Swamp dryandra, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.B. aurantia grows as a prostrate shrub, reaching 10–35 cm high.It has horizontal stems that grow underground. The pale blue-green leaves are 12–25 cm long and 2.5–4.5 cm wide, with 18–28 deep pointed narrow lobes along each leaf edge. The composite orange or orange-pink flower heads, known as inflorescences, are around 5 cm across. They grow from the ends of stems and have 80 individual small flowers each.