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Protea rubropilosa
Also called Escarpment Sugarbush, Transvaal Sugarbush, Escarpment Protea, Velvet Sugarbush, Wolkberg Sugarbush
Protea rubropilosa, also known as the Transvaal sugarbush, escarpment sugarbush or Transvaal mountain sugarbush, is a flowering tree, that belongs to the genus Protea in the family Proteaceae. The plant only occurs in South Africa.
Other vernacular names which have been recorded for this tree are platorand-suikerbos and Transvaalse berg-suikerbos in the Afrikaans language, and segwapi in Northern Sotho.
Protea rubropilosa is endemic to a section of the slopes of the Great Escarpment in northeastern South Africa, where it occurs in the provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo. It is distributed from the Wolkberg to Lydenburg. It occurs along the Blyderivier.
This plant is grown at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. The tree's national number is 97.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Protea rubropilosa 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.
