Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve, Kareela
The reserve showcases a wide range of Australian native plants from around Australia in planted theme gardens including an acacia garden, sun-loving plants, rainforest, silver foliage garden, bush tucker, shade garden, fern garden and lily garden. The reserve also includes an unplanted natural area showing the original remnant Sydney sandstone vegetation. Over 600 plants are labelled with their botanical name. See the list here. 
The reserve includes most of the local east coast banksias including "Banksia aemula", "Banksia ericifolia", "Banksia integrifolia", "Banksia marginata", "Banksia oblongifolia", "Banksia paludosa", "Banksia plagiocarpa", "Banksia robur", "Banksia serrata" and "Banksia spinulosa". Western Australian species growing at the reserve include "Banksia blechnifolia" and "Banksia repens". For more on local banksias see and.
Banksia aquilonia
"Banksia aquilonia" occurs in coastal areas of northern Queensland from the Cedar Bay National Park to Paluma Range National Park, in areas with an annual rainfall of . It occurs from near sea level to an altitude of , in a variety of habitats and aspects. It grows in wet sclerophyll forest or rainforest margins, on plateaus, ridges, slopes and low-lying swampy areas on sandy or rocky soils, generally of granitic origin, or sometimes clay. It commonly grows with tree species such as the pink bloodwood ("Corymbia intermedia"), forest red gum ("Eucalyptus tereticornis"), swamp turpentine ("Lophostemon suaveolens"), forest oak ("Allocasuarina torulosa"), and black sheoak ("A. littoralis"), and understorey species such as coin spot wattle ("Acacia cincinnata") and yellow wattle ("A. flavescens"). Much of its lowland habitat in the Wet Tropics has been degraded or fragmented. Although the range overlaps with "B. dentata", the two species are not known to occur together.