Leucadendron conicum (Lam.) I.Williams is a plant in the Proteaceae family, order Proteales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Leucadendron conicum (Lam.) I.Williams

Leucadendron conicum (Lam.) I.Williams

Leucadendron conicum, or garden route conebush, is a fynbos flowering shrub native to South Africa's Western and Eastern Cape.

Family
Genus
Leucadendron
Order
Proteales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Leucadendron conicum (Lam.) I.Williams

Leucadendron conicum, commonly called the garden route conebush, is a flowering shrub in the Leucadendron genus that forms part of fynbos vegetation. It is native to the Western Cape and Eastern Cape of South Africa, where it grows in the Langeberg, Outeniqua Mountains, Tsitsikamma Mountains, Elandsberg, and the Garden Route plain. This shrub reaches a height of 6 m, and flowers from October to November. In Afrikaans, it is called vaaltolbos, and it is listed as entry number 78.1 on South Africa's National List of Indigenous Trees.

Photo: (c) Nicola van Berkel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Nicola van Berkel · cc-by-sa

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Proteales Proteaceae Leucadendron

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