Wikipedia:WikiProject Banksia/Drafts/Cultivation of Banksia
intro
Background edit
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Uses edit
- cultivated for sale in nursery industry, and for sale of cut flowers to florists.
- favoured species?
Cut flower industry edit
- how big is the cut flower industry
- where does the industry operate
- where are its markets
- competition?
Propagation edit
- seed
- cuttings
- tissue culture
- grafting
- budding
- cloning
- breeding and selection strategies
- cultivars
Crop Management edit
- aspect, soil, climate
- plant spacing and layout
- irrigation
- fertilising
- pruning
- flower induction
Pests and diseases edit
- diseases
- dieback
- canker (cryptodiapothe, Diplodinia, Zythiostroma, Botryospharia)
- corky bark
- flower blight
- shoot tip blight
- anthracnose
- silverleaf
- armillaria rot
- white root rot
- verticillium wilt
- damping off
- bacterial leaf spot
- root knot
- pests
- tunnelling moth larvae
- other flower and leaf predators
- seed predators
- witch's broom mite
- red spider mite
- birds
- kangaroos, bandicoots
- competition from weeds
Postharvest handling edit
- harvesting method
- drying
- dying
- disinfestation
- packaging, transport
- marketing
References edit
- ^ Sedgley, Margaret (1996). "Banksia, Family Proteaceae". In Krystyna A. Johnson; Margaret Burchett (eds.). Native Australian Plants: Horticulture and Uses. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. pp. 18–35. ISBN 0868401595.
- ^ Leonhardt, K. W. and Richard A. Criley (1999). "Proteaceae floral crops: Cultivar Development and Underexploited Uses". In J. Janick (ed.). Perspectives on new crops and new uses. Alexandria, Virginia: ASHS Press. pp. 410–430. ISBN 0961502703. Retrieved 2006-08-15.
- ^ Sedgley, Margaret (2004). "Banksias". In Keith Hyde (ed.). The New Rural Industries: A Handbook for Farmers and Investors. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation. pp. 481–486. Retrieved 2006-08-15.
- ^ "Factsheet 24/2000: Commercial revegetation opportunities for the Western Australian wheatbelt: Banksias for cut flower production" (PDF). Agriculture Western Australia. Retrieved 2006-08-15.