Candlestick tree...

While in California the other week, I also saw countless species of Banksia, a Southern Hemisphere shrub/tree with other-worldly flowers and flower clusters.
















I do not know the name of this species I saw at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum (and I was too afraid of roaming rattlesnakes to go probing at the base of the tree for an accession tag!). But, the inflorescences sure do look a lot like candlesticks, don't they? The bees liked them, too, as can be seen in the close-up.