Leucospermum Cordifolium - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Dandelion where the famous Gemmayzeh Street

where the famous Gemmayzeh Street is named after its Arabic name Gemmayz

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

large cones

They vary in colour from grey to bright-green and are sometimes striped or mottled

A highly attractive species

Leucospermum Cordifolium - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Dandelion where the famous Gemmayzeh StreetLeucospermum (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,