Scarlet

Banksia coccinea, or the Scarlet Banksia, grows naturally in the south-west of Western Australia, near the town Albany. This one is in the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra, nearly 4000 km from its homeland. 

Banksia coccinea was collected in 1801 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown. He was naturalist on a British voyage to Australia led by Matthew Flinders in command of HMS Investigator. He gave it its botanical name in a publication in 1810, which also named another 30 species of Banksia he had collected in Australia, and a vast number of other plants that were new to science.