On a frosty winter's morning in Victoria's Upper Murray, 20 volunteers tighten the straps on their backpacks and lace up their hiking boots. They have gathered at Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian. Firewood banksia is ...

Robyn Williams: Over in Kew Gardens in London there's a Millennium Seed Bank containing squillions of seeds, many of them from Australia. And when the numbers of our Banksia species declined because ...

There are only 400 Stirling Range Wattles and 600 Kambellup Banksias alive in the wild - and a researcher at The University of Western Australia has devoted the last four years of her life to making ...

Why are banksia flowers so big? I've long admired those huge cones, run my hands over their almost-plastic perfection, marvelled at their fabulous geometry and great colour combinations, but I had ...