Hummingbird Feeders
Feeders are made from the seed pod of the Banksia tree that grows in Australia.
$28 each or 2/$50
Shipping - Only $5 for any number of feeders
The seedpod in bloom.
The tree shown with pods.
Banksia is a genus of plants that occur in
Australia and Papua New Guinea numbering 75 named species. Of these, 61 are
found in Western Australia, including the Banksia Grandis, the species that
generates the large seed pods.
Banksias in general occur as plants ranging from prostrate shrubs, to larger
bushes, and trees of around 50 feet in height. The Banksias Grandis is
restricted to a natural occurrence in only the southwest corner of Western
Australia. More specifically, the coastal plain and Darling plateau from a point
some distance north of Perth extending over an area about 650 miles southwards
and eastwards along the coast and about 100 miles inland at most.
Banksia Seed Pods are a truly renuable resource, since no trees are cut down to
harvest the Pods.