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Protea pruinosa
Protea pruinosa, also known as frosted sugarbush or burnished protea, is a flowering shrub which belongs to the genus Protea within the botanical family Proteaceae. The plant is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa.
92% of all the Protea species are found in South Africa, and this species is among them. It is endemic to the Western Cape province of South Africa, only occurring on the tops of mountains of the Swartberg Mountains bordering the Little Karoo to the north, from the Towerkop to Meiringspoort (a mountain pass). As of 1993, there were only six known locations where this species grew, and five of these populations occur on the Klein Swartberg Mountains rising above the Karoo just to the north of the village of Ladismith.
This is an extremely difficult species to cultivate in areas with less frigid climates. The seeds require a period of stratification in order to germinate, and the plants appear to need a cold winter dormancy period.
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 pruinosa 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.
