''Leucadendron orientale'', the Van Staden's sunbush, 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 ...

belonging to the genus ''Leucadendron'' and forms 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 ...

. The plant is native to the

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, where it occurs on the Elandsberg from Loerie to the Van Stadensberg. The shrub grows 1.3 m tall and bears flowers in June and July. Fire destroys the plant but the seeds survive. The seeds are stored in a toll on the female plant and two months after the fruit has formed and ripened, it falls to the ground. The seeds are spread by rodents. The plant is unisexual; there are male and female plants that reproduce by the activities of small towers. The plant grows mainly in sandstone soils at altitudes of 150-850 m. In Afrikaans it is known as .

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* * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q18077665 orientale