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Leucospermum cordatum
Also called Heart Leaf Leucadendrum, Heartleaf Pincushion
Leucospermum cordatum is an evergreen, creeping shrublet of about 20 cm (8 in) high from the family Proteaceae. It has pale cream flower heads, from which pink flushed styles emerge, the whole reminiscent of a pincushion. Its common name is heart-leaf pincushion in English. It flowers between July and December but the peak of the flowering period is from September to November. It is an endemic species, that is only known from two locations close to each other in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The heart-leaved pincushion is only known from one population in the Kogelberg Mountains of the southwestern Western Cape province of South Africa, about halfway between Rooi Els and Kogel Bay near a former manganese mine, on the steep, lower, west-facing slopes of the Rooi Els Berg, between 15 and 75 m (50–250 ft) altitude. It grows in a vegetation with tufts of Restionaceae on coarse gravel mixed with clay, the result of weathering of Table Mountain Sandstone just above the lower Table Mountain Shaleband. At this location the average annual precipitation is 750–1000 mm (30–40 in), most of which falls during the southern winter.
Redelinghuys Pincushion · Gordon's Bay Pincushion · Arid Pincushion · Catherine's Pincushion · Grey tree-pincushion · Red pincushion-protea · Common Pincushion · Oudtshoorn Pincushion · Silver-leaf wheel pincushion · Potberg Pincushion · Soapstone Pincushion · Ember pincushion
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucospermum cordatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
