Baby Banksia

Last month I showed this photo of a banksia cone:

Very like the big bad banskia men which were the scary villains in May Gibb's stories,

 although with with its eyes all closed.

A couple of cones came home with us, and after we had had pizzas one day, the cones spent some time in the hot pizza oven. That opened up the seed-holding "eyes", enabling the seeds to be collected. (And making the cones look more like the nasty banksia men.)

The seeds were sown in the same sort of propagation tubes we use for the TreeProject seedlings, and look at this:

A baby banksia tree! About half a dozen have come up so far.

Edited later - turns out that this is NOT a banksia seedling! Find out what it is in this post.