The range is the eastern part of Australia , from Queensland to Victoria , isolated sites are located in Tasmania and Flinders .
Plants of the species are usually clumsy trees with a deformed trunk up to 15 m high, although in the coastal areas the Banksia serratus is a shrub up to 3 m, sometimes creeping in rocky ground.
The leaves are oblong-obolate-lanceolate, 7.5-10 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, coarse-toothed, leathery, often slightly wavy along the edge.
The flowers are in oblong large ears of 10-15 cm long and 7-10 cm wide, initially silver-gray, later yellow, then reddening after withering of the flowers [3] .
Sawed Banksia is used by some gardeners as an ornamental plant , less commonly as a greenhouse .
