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Thistle Sugarbush
Protea scolymocephala
Protea scolymocephala, the thistle protea, is a flowering plant from the Protea genus native to South Africa. It's a small erect shrub between 0.5 and 1.5 meters tall. The leaves are linear-spatulate curving upwards. The flowerhead is yellow-green and small, with 3.5 - 4.5 cm across. The species flowers between June and November. The fruits are retained.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 566623.