I am getting used to the Cape vegetation and the abundance of Protea plants here. The variety is amazing! Here is a pic I snapped last year in the Easter Cape, near KwaZulu-Natal. I gather this is a type of Protea or am I mistaken? The colour of the flowers is so vibrant and there are hairy pods on the stem. Who knows what it is?
wow! these are beautiful – I am a huge fan of fynbos.
me too, these are really stunning.
Not so sure, they look more like an Australian Grevillea. Yup, looks like the picture in my book. Yes it is a protea, but an Australian not a South African. Where were you? Was that growing wild?
the flowers do look very similar to pincushions.but the seed pods do not look familiar…had a few pincushions in durbs but ants are vile and vicious creatures.lol…they killed the best ones.
king proteas and the hybrid pink ice do brilliantly in durbs…got a few.no fungal issues with them.
theres a guy in greytown …raises them commercially..what a helpful dude.if u keen..
it’s a shame that this is an australian version as it was growing wild in a nature reserve at mkhambathi in the eastern cape.
so its an invader? weird as it looks totally south african …
shame.plants do suffer heaps of immigration problems.
yip, no body wants theme when they sprout up in the wrong place 🙂
That looks more like a grevillia than a protea (they are related though). Hang on while I check Wikipedia …
Yep, that’s Grevillia banksii, native to Queensland in Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevillea_banksii