Family: Proteaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Other Banksia species have become invasive
  
• From fire prone ecosystems and may increase fire risk
  
• Reported to form thickets in native range
  
• Reproduces by seeds
  
• May reach reproductive maturity in 4+ years
  
• Seeds dispersed by wind and intentionally by people
  
• Forms canopy stored seed bank (serotiny)

Low Risk Traits:

• No reports of invasiveness or naturalization, but limited evidence of widespread introduction outside native range
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• Non-toxic
  
• Ornamental
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Seeds relatively large and unlikely to be inadvertently dispersed
  
• Does not tolerate fire or heavy pruning