Leucospermum oleifolium
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> Family: Proteaceae > Genus: Leucospermum
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One of the small Pincushions, Leucospermum
oleifolium, flowering in late spring in cultivation at Kirstenbosch
Botanic Gardens, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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The high altitude form of Leucospermum
oleifolium flowering in autumn in the Hottentots Hollands Mountains,
Western Cape, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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Leucospermum oleifolium, Kirstenbosch
Botanical Gardens, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
H.G.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) on the
Pincushion (Leucospermum oleifolium) flowering in spring in
cultivation in the Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, Cape Peninsula, South
Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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