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Leucospermum wittebergense
Leucospermum wittebergense is an evergreen, upright to more or less spreading shrub of 0.5–1.5 m (1.7–5 ft) high and wide from the family Proteaceae. It has globe-shaped flower heads of about 2 cm (0.8 in) in diameter with initially whitish, later pinkish flowers. It has crowded, overlapping, inverted lance-shaped leaves, set at an upward angle and covered in short, dense grey-silvery shaggy hairs. From the center of the perianth emerge almost straight styles that jointly give the impression of a pincushion. It is called Swartberg pincushion in English. The species naturally occurs in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It can be found flowering between August and January.
L. wittebergense occurs from the Witteberg in the west, along the Swartberg, to a few miles east of Meirings Poort. It is also known from the Touwsberg and Warmwaterberg in the Little Karroo and near Oudtshoorn on the northern slopes of the Outeniqua Range at Klein Moeras River. It only grows on arid rocky slopes of Witteberg Quartzite or Table Mountain Sandstone, at an altitude of 750–1850 m (2500–6000 ft), either facing north or south. Arid Fynbos constitutes the associated vegetation. The population on the Swartberg reaches up to 1.5 m (5 ft) high with the average annual precipitation up to 635 mm (25 in), while the plants on the Witteberg are mostly no larger than 0.5 m, but only receive 250 mm (10 in).
Redelinghuys Pincushion · Gordon's Bay Pincushion · Arid Pincushion · Catherine's Pincushion · Grey tree-pincushion · Heart Leaf Pincushion · Red pincushion-protea · Common Pincushion · Oudtshoorn Pincushion · Silver-leaf wheel pincushion · Potberg Pincushion · Soapstone Pincushion
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucospermum wittebergense 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.
