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Leucadendron xanthoconus (Sickle-leaf conebush)

Blinkblaartolbos [Afrikaans]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Order: Proteales > Family: Proteaceae > Genus: Leucadendron

Leucadendron xanthoconus

A male Leucadendron xanthoconus in flower in spring on the southern Cape Peninsula with False Bay and the Kogelberg mountains in the distance, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Leucadendron xanthoconus

A male plant of Leucadendron xanthoconus flowering in spring on the Agulhas Plain near Pearly Beach, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

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A female plant of Leucadendron xanthoconus flowering on Elsies Peak in the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Mature cones of a female plant of Leucadendron xanthoconus on the Cape Peninsula mountains in the Silvermine Reserve, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Leucadendron xanthoconus

A male Cape Sugarbird, Promerops cafer, perched on Leucadendron xanthoconus in leaf in the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]