Protea Eximia - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Pepper Cress magenta flowers in Spring

magenta flowers in Spring

An extension of the midrib (the tendril)

lance-shaped toothed leaves

To 18m much branched tree

seed and embryo which looks like in all details to Astrophytum capricorne

Protea Eximia - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Pepper Cress magenta flowers in SpringProtea eximia, also known as the broad leaved sugar bush is a shrub that may become a small tree, which occurs in mountain fynbos on mainly acidic sandy soils; the species was very well known under its old name of Protea latifolia. The flowers have awns that are covered in purple black velvety hairs, and are contained within a series of rings of involucral bracts that have the appearance of petals. The fruit is a densely hairy nut, many of which are