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Leucospermum bolusii
Gordon's Bay Pincushion is an evergreen shrub from a very small coastal range near Gordon's Bay in South Africa, grown for its pincushion flower heads. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and lean, acidic soil.
Leucospermum bolusii is a shrub native to South Africa. It grows to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in height, and has nearly hairless leaves with a single apical tooth. The leaves are oval shaped and range from 25–45 mm (0.98–1.77 in) in length. The flower heads are about 2 cm in diameter, slightly flattened globe shaped, are set on a stalk of about 1 cm and crowded with up to eight together at the tip of the branches. They each contain 50–100 small, sweetly scented creamy white flowers, that later turn light pink. Flowering takes place between September and December. It is called Gordon's Bay pincushion in English and witluisiesbos in Afrikaans.
L. bolusii has a very restricted range, in the hills between Gordon's Bay and the Kogel Bay (halfway to Pringle Bay), in a strip no further than about 400 m (¼ mi) from the sea, and below about 150 m (500 ft) elevation. It grows in fairly dense stands on steep and rocky, westward facing slopes consisting of Table Mountain Sandstone, and give the landscape a pink hue, particularly adjacent to Gordon's Bay. Within this area the annual precipitation is 750–1150 mm (30–45 in).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucospermum bolusii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
