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The banksia is a plant with unique adaptations to help it survive in its environment.
Firstly, the nature of its flower structure attracts many more birds, animals and insects that can help to ensure pollination to other plants. The flowers are long and cylindrical, rather than single cuplike structures.
Also, banksias are able to survive bushfires better than other plants. Some banksias have thick bark that protects them from fire, whilst others have lignotubers, which are underground swellings on their roots, from which they are able to sprout again after fire. these lignotubers are protected, being underground, and rarely damaged by bushfires.
Banksia flowers rely on fire to stimulate the release of their seeds. The seeds are protected from bushfires by a resinous coating, and the action of the fire passing triggers their release as the fire melts the resin.
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Do Banksias self-pollinate?
nope
Who are banksias name after?
Joseph Banks
Australia has many species of banksias After whom as banksias named?
plopAfter Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820 a President of the Royal Society who travelledwith Capt. Cook.
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no organisms adapt to the environment to help them survive
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Their ar about 26 species of Banksias.
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No, all organisms react to their environment to survive.
How does an environment determine where an organism can survive?
how does the environmental determine where an organism can survive
How does the environment determine where an organism can survive?
how does the environmental determine where an organism can survive
Discussion of why adaptation is important for organisms to survive in an environment?
Adaptation is important for organisms to survive in an environment for various reasons. The environment posses different threats to different organisms and having these special features is what makes it possible to survive.
