landed on Australian soil for the first time on 29 April 1770, at a place that he later named Botany Bay. Botanist Sir Joseph Banks and naturalist Dr Daniel Solander collected many species of plants, one being the Banksia. This plant was named after Sir Banks. Our aboriginal culture also have a story to tell, so if you have the time look up Wattun’goori The Story of the Hairy Men, How the Banksias Came to Be.