''Leucadendron conicum'', the garden route conebush, is a
flower-bearing shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
that belongs to the
genus ''
Leucadendron '' and part of the
fynbos
Fynbos (; meaning fine plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This area is predominantly coastal and mountainous, with a Mediterranean clim ...
form. The plant is native to the
Western Cape and the
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha.
The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...
, where it occurs in the
Langeberg,
Outeniqua Mountains,
Tsitsikamma Mountains, Elandsberg and
Garden Route plain.The shrub grows to be 6 m and bears flowers from October to November.
In Afrikaans it is known as . The tree is number 78.1 on the National List of Indigenous Trees in South Africa.
Gallery
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References
conicum
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