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Protea lepidocarpodendron (Black-beard sugarbush) Life
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> Family: Proteaceae > Genus: Protea
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Protea lepidocarpodendron. [photo
H.G.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
Protea lepidocarpodendron flowering in
mid-winter in fynbos in the Silvermine section of the Table Mountain
National Park, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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A male Cape sugarbird (Promerops
cafer) perched on a Protea lepidocarpodendron shrub on
the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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A male Orange-breasted sunbird (Anthobaphes
violacea) feeding its chicks in their nest built into a
Protea lepidocarpodendron bush on Table Mountain, Cape Peninsula,
South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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