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Cone bush, conebush, or cone-bush is a common name for various plants, usually dicotyledonous shrubs that bear their flowers and seeds in compact, cone-shaped
inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
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infructescence Infructescence (fruiting head) is defined as the ensemble of fruits derived from the ovaries of an inflorescence. It usually retains the size and structure of the inflorescence.
In some cases, infructescences are similar in appearance to simple fru ...
s. The plants that the name most frequently applies to are members of the
Proteaceae, and in particular the Australian genus ''
Isopogon''
[Rowell Raymond J. Ornamental Flowering Shrubs in Australia. Publisher: University of New South Wales. 1991. ] and the African genus ''
Leucadendron
''Leucadendron'' is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa, where they are a prominent part of the fynbos ecoregion and vegetation type.
Description
Species in the genus ''Leucadendron' ...
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Isopogon
Leucadendron
Plant common names