''Protea asymmetrica'', also known as the Inyanga sugarbush, is a flowering plant, named for its asymmetric flowerheads, of the family
Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...
and endemic to
Zimbabwe and the
Nyanga region, where it grows in grasslands, as well as
Mount Nyangani.
It reaches a height of up to 1.6m, and mainly flowers from June to August.
The plant sprouts after a fire, and grows on grassland at a height of around 2000m.
See also
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References
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