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Protea grandiceps
Also called Peach Protea, Princess Protea, Coral Coloured Protea, Grandiceps, Large Bud Sugarbush, Obtuse Erodendrum, Oval Leaf Sugarbush
Protea grandiceps, commonly known as rooisuikerbos, suikerbos or red sugarbush, is a flowering shrub that belongs to the Protea genus and is native to south western parts of South Africa. The shrub was listed as a near threatened species in 2006 according to the South African National Biodiversity Institute.
The plant is endemic to South Africa and is found in the Cape Peninsula, Hottentots Holland Mountains, Riviersonderend Mountains, Langeberg, Outeniqua Mountains, Tsitsikamma Mountains, Winterhoek Mountains and Kamanassie Mountains where it is commonly situated on stony crevices on dry upper mountain slopes at elevations of 1,200 to 1,700 m (3,900 to 5,600 ft). It is spread over a total area of around 652 km2 (252 sq mi) composed of fragmented populations.
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 grandiceps 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.
