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Mimetes cucullatus
Also called Lyre Bearing Mimetes, Red Bottlebrush, Red Stump, Redflamebush, Red Pagoda
Mimetes cucullatus is an evergreen shrub with several, mostly not branching, upright stems of 1–2 m (3–7 ft) high, that has been assigned to the family Proteaceae. It is the most widespread and most common pagoda species that can cope with a relatively large range of environmental circumstances. It is known under several names including common pagoda in English and rooistompie in Afrikaans.
Mimetes cucullatus is an unusual and beautiful plant. It is popular with people who have interest in indigenous plants and wildlife gardens.
Since M. cucullatus is a resprouter, it responds well to severe pruning, which makes it well suited as a cut-flower.
Mimetes cucullatus is the most widely distributed pagoda species, found from west of the Olifants River valley near Porterville in the north and the Cape Peninsula in the southwest, to the Langeberg range in the east. It is particularly common along the coast between Hangklip near Pringle Bay in the Kogelberg area to Bredasdorp. There are three isolated inland populations of M. cucullatus in the Kouga Mountains, Klein Swartberg and Rooiberg, an isolated mountain in the middle of the Little Karoo. Another isolated population occurs on the Potberg. This makes it likely that its distribution used to be larger than today but, with increasing drought, it became limited to areas that are wet enough today.
Kogelberg Silver Bottlebrush · Silver Pagoda · Conical Pagoda · Golden pagoda · Fringed Bottlebrush · Marsh pagoda · Matchstick Pagoda · Cryptic Pagoda · Threeflower pagoda · Limestone Pagoda · Splendid Pagoda · Mace Pagoda
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mimetes cucullatus 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.
