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Protea scolopendriifolia
Also called Common Snow Protea, Common Snow Sugarbush, Hart's Tongue Fern Sugarbush, Hartstonguefern Sugarbush, Hearts Tongue Leaf Erodendrum, Small Snow Sugarbush
A rhizomatous shrub from the mountains of South Africa's Western and Eastern Cape, usually spreading by underground rhizomes that resprout after fires. It is a cool-climate fynbos plant that needs excellent drainage and full sun.
Protea scolopendriifolia, also known as the harts-tongue-fern sugarbush or hart's-tongue-fern sugarbush, is a flowering shrub endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in both the Western and Eastern Cape. It is found from the Cederberg, through the Kogelberg, Riviersonderend Mountains and Swartberg, to the Kouga Mountains. It blooms in Spring, from September to December.
It produces underground rhizomes from which shoots bud off, especially after wildfires. The whole plant that emerges from these rhizomes can be up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) across. The seed is retained in the seed-head for a considerable time, before being released and scattered by the wind. Each flower has both male and female parts. Pollination occurs through the action of rodents. It grows on Cederberg shale, sometimes on sandstone soils at altitudes varying from 450 to 1,800 m (1,480 to 5,910 ft).
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 scolopendriifolia 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.
