Banksia marginata

The Banksia can be identified by its elongated flower spike - an inflorescence - covered in hundreds of tightly packed flowers (the most recorded on one spike is around 6000 in Banksia grandis). They belong to the plant family Proteaceae and are an Australian wildflower, also popular as garden plants.
The extra is the fruit pod, with its woody follicle embedded in the axis of the inflorescence. These have two horizontal valves  tightly enclosing the seeds which will open at maturity or after stimulated by bush fire. The seeds are tiny with wedge-shaped papery wings that spin out and fall to the ground.
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