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Protea rubropilosa, also known as the Transvaal sugarbush, [3] [4] [5] escarpment sugarbush [3] or Transvaal mountain sugarbush, [3] is a flowering tree, ...
Protea aspera, commonly known as rough leaf sugar bush [2] or aardroos suikerbos, is a flowering shrub that belongs to the well-known Protea genus. The plant is endemic to South Africa [3] and is found in the Kleinrivierberge, Bredasdorpberge and Garcia's Pass.
Protea roupelliae is a species of Protea in the large family Proteaceae, and was named to commemorate Arabella Elizabeth Roupell (1817-1914) who spent two years in Cape Town and painted local flowers for her own pleasure.
Protea lacticolor or the Hottentot sugarbush, Hottentot white sugarbush or Hottentot's Holland sugarbush, [2] [3] is a flowering shrub of the Protea genus. It is also known as the Hottentotwitsukkerbos. The plant is endemic to South Africa and is found from the Slanghoek to the Hottentots Holland Mountains and also the Groenlandberg.
Protea humiflora, the patentleaf sugarbush, is a flower-bearing shrub belonging to the Protea genus. The plant is endemic to South Africa and occurs from the Du Toitskloof Mountains to the Langeberg and Waboomsberg. [2] [3] The plant grows to 2 m in diameter and flowers from July to September with its peak in August. [3]
At a traditional sugarbush, all the trees were hand tapped and the sap was boiled over wood fires. The Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) peoples have been doing sugarbush for generations and consider the process both a part of food and of medicine. [3] The tree canopy is dominated by sugar maple or black maple. Other tree species, if present, form only a ...
The species is also called queen sugarbush, [2] [6] bearded sugarbush or woolly beard. In the Afrikaans language the vernacular names baardprotea , baardsuikerbos , baard-suikerbos , koninginprotea , suikerbosprotea , wolbaardsuikerbos and wolbaard-suikerbos have all been recorded for the plant.
Protea acuminata, also known in English as the black-rim sugarbush, [2] [3] [4] or in the Afrikaans language as sederbergsuikerbos, [2] is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea. [3] [4] The plant is endemic to South Africa. [2] There are isolated populations at Nieuwoudtville, and in the Cederberg, Stettynskloof and Riviersonderend ...