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Protea canaliculata
Protea canaliculata, also known as the groove-leaf sugarbush, is a species of flowering shrub of the genus Protea, which is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.
In Afrikaans, this species is known by the vernacular name of bergroossuikerbos.
It was first grown in Europe in the first few years of the 19th century in the collection of the wealthy merchant George Hibbert, from seeds collected by James Niven at a valley called Lange Kloof in the Cape region.
The plant is endemic to the central region of the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is found in the mountain ranges of the Little Karoo, where it occurs from the Hex River Mountains to the Waboomsberg and Groot Swartberge. It grows in the Ouberg Pass, Western Cape. The species usually occurs in low densities as scattered plants over a wide area, but occasionally it may be found growing clustered together in dense stands.
Common Ground Sugarbush · Black Rim Sugarbush · Clasping Leaf Sugarbush · Angolan Protea · Kleinmond Sugarbush · Ladismith Sugarbush · Rough Leaf Sugarbush · Inyanga Sugarbush · Potberg Sugarbush · Shuttlecock sugarbush · Burchell's Sugarbush · Bishop Sugarbush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Protea canaliculata 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.
