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Diastella divaricata subsp. montana

Diastella divaricata subsp. montana
Common names: mountain silkypuff
Family: Proteaceae

... to its habitat. Diastella is one of 14 genera of the Proteaceae family. The genus Diastella is endemic to the Cape ...

22 / 05 / 2017 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Diastella divaricata subsp. divaricata

Diastella divaricata subsp. divaricata
Common names: Peninsula silkypuff
Family: Proteaceae

... habit of the plant. Diastella is one of 14 genera of the Proteaceae family. The genus Diastella is endemic to the Cape ...

01 / 05 / 2017 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea lacticolor

Protea lacticolor 
Common names: Hottentot’s Holland sugarbush, hottentot sugarbush, hottentot white sugarbush (Eng.), witsuikerbos, hottentotwitsuikerbos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... after the mountain range where it grows naturally. The Proteaceae is a family of one magnificent flowering plant ...

24 / 04 / 2017 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea nana

Protea nana (Marian Oliver)
Common names: mountain rose, mountain-rose sugarbush (Eng.); bergroos, warebergroos, skaamblom, skaamroos, skaamrosie (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

20 / 03 / 2017 | Anthony Hitchcock | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea odorata

Protea odorata
Common names: Swartland sugarbush
Family: Proteaceae

... sugarbush, refers to the region where it occurs. The Proteaceae is a family of magnificent flowering plants. It ...

13 / 02 / 2017 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Diastella parilis

Diastella parilis
Common names: Worcester silkypuff
Family: Proteaceae

... to other species. Diastella is one of 14 genera of the Proteaceae family and is a small genus of 7 species. ...

06 / 02 / 2017 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea longifolia

Protea longifolia
Common names: long-leaf sugarbush, long-leaf protea (Eng.); langblaarsuikerbos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... forms. Longifolia is Latin and means ‘long-leaf’. The Proteaceae is a family of one magnificent flowering plant ...

12 / 12 / 2016 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea cryophila

Protea cryophila
Common names: snow protea, snowball protea (Eng.); sneeuprotea, sneeublom (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

24 / 10 / 2016 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Mimetes capitulatus

Mimetes capitulatus (Robbie Thomas)
Common names: conical pagoda (Eng.); skraalstompie (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... October of that year. In Simonstown, Brown encountered Proteaceae, including Mimetes , and made it the subject of an ...

12 / 09 / 2016 | Karen Wall | Harold Porter NBG
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Protea subvestita

Protea subvestita
Common names: waterlily sugarbush (Eng.); lippeblomsuikerbos (Afr); igwanishe, isiqane (isiXhosa); isiqalaba (isiZulu)
Family: Proteaceae

... clothed or dressed’ referring to the leaf hairs. The Proteaceae is a family of one magnificent flowering plant ...

29 / 08 / 2016 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Leucospermum vestitum

Leucospermum vestitum, orange-red flowerheads
Common names: silky-haired pincushion (Eng.); bergluisie (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

16 / 05 / 2016 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea grandiceps

Protea grandiceps
Common names: red sugarbush, red protea (Eng.); rooisuikerbos, rooisuikerkan (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... ‘great or large’ and ceps meaning ‘headed’. The Proteaceae is a family of one magnificent flowering plant ...

08 / 05 / 2016 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Orothamnus zeyheri

Orothamnus zeyheri
Common names: marsh rose, mountain rose (Eng.); vleiroos, bergroos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

02 / 05 / 2016 | Nomama Mei | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Leucadendron chamelaea

Leucadendron chamelaea, female.
Common names: Witsenberg conebush
Family: Proteaceae

22 / 02 / 2016 | Ismail Ebrahim | CREW
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Protea mundii

Protea mundii, flowerhead
Common names: forest sugarbush, white protea (Eng.); witsuikerbos, boswitsuikerbos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

08 / 02 / 2016 | Megan Blatchford | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Protea aristata

Protea aristata, flowerhead.
Common names: Ladismith sugarbush (Eng.); klein-den-suikerbos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

25 / 01 / 2016 | Megan Blatchford | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Serruria decipiens

Serruria decipiens
Common names: sandveld spiderhead
Family: Proteaceae

... aemula and S. glomerata ,as well as other members of the Proteaceae such as Protea scolymocephala , P. cynaroides and ... Serruria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa and consists of 56 ...

07 / 12 / 2015 | Zitobile Sikova | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Diastella fraterna

Diastella fraterna
Common names: Palmiet silkypuff
Family: Proteaceae

... has the smallest distribution range of any genus in the Proteaceae. It consists of 7 species and is endemic to the ...

16 / 11 / 2015 | Nosiphelele Patricia Mapukata | Harold Porter NBG
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Faurea galpinii

Faurea galpinii, seedhead
Common names: forest beechwood, escarpment beechwood, bush-beech, forest-beech (Eng.); bosboekenhout, platorandboekenhout, rooiboekenhout (Afr.); sisefo (siSwati);
Family: Proteaceae

... What sets this genus apart from other African genera of Proteaceae, is that it is in essence tropical and ...

02 / 11 / 2015 | Andrew Hankey | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Protea amplexicaulis

Protea amplexicaulis
Common names: clasping-leaf sugarbush (Eng.); aardroos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... much like the many species belonging to the family Proteaceae. The species name amplexicaulis means ...

31 / 08 / 2015 | Aimee Plutsick | Kirstenbosch NBG
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