Leucospermum Cordifolium - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Dandelion large cones

large cones

Garden Nasturtiums are grown for their flowers

A highly attractive species

Small branchlets emerge from these knobs on which the tiny cylindrical cladodes or leaf-like stems grow

With grass like leaves and growing up to 25cm

Leucospermum Cordifolium - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Dandelion large conesLeucospermum (Pincushion, Pincushion Protea or Leucospermum) is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to Zimbabwe and South Africa, where they occupy a variety of habitats, including scrub, forest, and mountain slopes. They are evergreen shrubs (rarely small trees) growing to 0. 5 5 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, tough and leathery, simple, linear to lanceolate, 2 12 cm long and 0. 5 3 cm broad,