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Mountain Rose

Protea nana

Also called Mountain Rose Sugarbush

Mountain Rose
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Cape Prov.
Climate
subtropical

About

Protea nana, also known as the mountain rose or mountain-rose sugarbush, is a flowering shrub which belongs within the genus Protea.

Where it grows

The plant is endemic to the Western Cape province of South Africa, and is found from the Groot Winterhoek mountains, through the Du Toits Mountains, to the Skurweberg near Ceres. It occurs near the towns of Porterville, Ceres, Paarl, Tulbagh and Worcester. It is usually found occurring in a large number isolated stands.

Other Protea plants

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 nana 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.

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