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Protea afra [3] (sometimes called the common protea), native to South Africa, is a small tree or shrub which occurs in open or wooded grassland, usually on rocky ridges. Its leaves are leathery and hairless. The flower head is solitary or in clusters of 3 or 4 with the involucral bracts a pale red, pink or cream colour.
Proteaceae flower parts occur in fours. The four tepals are fused into a long, narrow tube with a closed cup at the top, and the filaments of the four stamens are fused to the tepals in such a way that the anthers are enclosed within the cup. The pistil initially passes along the inside of the perianth tube, so the stigma, too, is enclosed ...
Protea (/ ˈ p r oʊ t iː ə / [2]) is a genus of South African flowering plants, also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos).It is the type genus of the Proteaceae family. [3]About 92% of the species occur only in the Cape Floristic Region, a narrow belt of mountainous coastal land from Clanwilliam to Grahamstown, South Africa.
bishop protea Protea caespitosa: Bishop sugarbush: South Africa (Western Cape province) Paludosae rooi protea Protea enervis: Chimanimani sugarbush: Zimbabwe and Mozambique Paracynaroides sneeu protea Protea cryophila: Snowball protea: South Africa Protea pruinosa: Frosted sugarbush: South Africa (Western Cape province) Protea scabriuscula
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Protea grandiceps, commonly known as rooisuikerbos, suikerbos or red sugarbush, [2] is a flowering shrub that belongs to the Protea genus and is native to south western parts of South Africa. [3] The shrub was listed as a near threatened species in 2006 according to the South African National Biodiversity Institute. [4]
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