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Leucospermum heterophyllum
Also called Hullabaloo
A low, trailing evergreen shrublet from the Western Cape of South Africa, forming a mat up to a few metres wide with globe-shaped whitish flower heads. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and a dry, Mediterranean-style climate with little summer water.
Leucospermum heterophyllum is a low, trailing evergreen shrublet of up to 15 cm (5.9 in) high, and up to several m in diameter, which is assigned to the family Proteaceae. It has narrow leaves of about 2+1⁄2 cm (0.98 in) long and 1⁄2 cm (0.20 in) wide, mostly with three teeth near its tip. It has small, globe-shaped, whitish flower heads. It is called trident pincushion in English and rankluisie in Afrikaans. It naturally occurs in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The plant flowers between August and January.
L. heterophyllum is an endemic species restricted to just a few square miles on the Agulhas plains between Bredasdorp in the northeast, Elim in the west, and Soetendalsvlei in the south.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucospermum heterophyllum 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.
