name given to the Banksias (q.v.); also called Bottle-brush (q.v.).The species are – – Coast Honeysuckle – – Banksia integrifolia, Linn.
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1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 125:
«Some scattered honeysuckles, as they, are called, but which,being specimens of a ligneous evergreen shrub ( BanksiaAustralis), my English reader will please not to assimilatein his mind's eye in any respect with the woodbine.»
1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 84:
«The honeysuckle ( Banksia integrifolia) will greatlydisappoint those who, from its name, expect to see anythingsimilar to the sweet-scented climbers of English hedges andgardens – – this being a tree attaining to thirty or forty feet inheight, with spiral yellow flowers. The blossoms at the properseasons yield a great quantity of honey, which on a dewymorning may be observed dropping from the flowers.»
1848. Letter by Mrs. Perry, given in Goodman's `Churchin Victoria during Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 83:
«In the course of our journey today we passed through a thinwood of honeysuckle trees, for, I should think, about threemiles. They take their name from the quantity of honeycontained in the yellow cone-shaped flower, which is muchprized and sucked by the natives – – the aborigines, I mean.»
1852. Mrs. Meredith, 'My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 164:
«The honeysuckle-tree ( Banksia latifolia) is sounreasonably named . . . so very unlike any sort or species ofthe sweet old flower whose name it so unfittingly bears. . . .The blossoms form cones, which when in full bloom, are much thesize and shape of a large English teazel, and are of a greenishyellow. . . . The honeysuckle trees grow to about thirty feetin height.»
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 10:
« Banksia, spp., N.O. Proteaceae. The name`honeysuckle' was applied to this genus by the early settlers,from the fact that the flowers, when in full bloom, contain, ina greater or lesser quantity, a sweet, honey-like liquid, whichis secreted in considerable quantities, especially after a dewynight, and is eagerly sucked out by the aborigines.»
1892. A. Sutherland, `Elementary Geography of BritishColonies,' p. 271:
«It [banksia] is called the `honeysuckle' by the people ofAustralia, though it has no resemblance to an Englishhoneysuckle. Many of the banksias grow into stately trees.»