William Mitchell Molyneux (born 1935) is an Australian horticulturist and author who has researched and developed many popular cultivars of Australian plants, including

Banksia 'Birthday Candles' ''Banksia'' 'Birthday Candles' is a dwarf cultivar of ''Banksia spinulosa'' var. ''spinulosa'' developed by Bill Molyneux of Austraflora Nurseries in Montrose, Victoria. It has since become the highest-selling native plant in Australia. Descri ...

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Isopogon 'Woorikee 2000' ''Isopogon'', commonly known as conesticks, conebushes or coneflowers, is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, and are endemic to Australia. They are shrubs with rigid leaves, bisexual flowers in a dense ...

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Grevillea molyneuxii ''Grevillea molyneuxii'', commonly known as Wingello grevillea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of south-eastern New South Wales. It is a spreading shrub with narrowly oblong or narrow ...

'' was named in his honour. He has also written books for the Australian garden. Bill lives at Wombat Bend in Victoria Australia surrounded by examples of his work and passions.

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*Molyneux W, Macdonald R (1992) ''How to Create an Australian Landscape'' Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, Australia 20th-century Australian botanists Australian horticulturists Australian taxonomists 1935 births Living people 21st-century Australian botanists {{australia-botanist-stub