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Protea rupicola
Also called Krantz Sugarbush, Dyke's Sugarbush
Protea rupicola is a branched shrub of the Protea family, growing up to about 2 m, native to rocky mountain slopes and tops in the Western and Eastern Cape of South Africa. It is a fire-adapted fynbos plant that needs full sun, excellent drainage and little summer water once established.
Protea rupicola, also known as the krantz sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea. It has a highly branched trunk and grows up to 2m high.
In Afrikaans it is known as the kranssuikerbos.
The plant is endemic to South Africa, where it is native to the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape. The plant is only found extremely localized near mountain tops, from in the mountain ranges of Groot Winterhoek and Klein Winterhoek through the Hottentots Holland Mountains and Langeberg in the Western Cape, to the part of the Groot Swartberg mountains which lies in the Eastern Cape.
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 rupicola by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
