Protea grandiceps (Red sugarbush) Life
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Protea grandiceps, Boosmansboos trail,
Western Cape, South Africa. [photo
H.G.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
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Protea grandiceps, extremely rare on the
Cape Peninsula, flowering in summer on The Saddle on Table Mountain,
Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
A Lappet moth caterpillar (Mesocelis monticola)
feeding on young leaves of Protea grandiceps in summer on
5-Beacon Ridge in the Kogelberg, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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