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Leucadendron |
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Leucadendron gandogeri |
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This grows readily into a bushy shrub up to about
1.3m height and spread. It has narrow leaves up to 8 cm long and
bright green in colour tinged with red at the margins, superb plant
for flower colour, with magnificent yellow bracts and flowers.
Flower cones may be up to 4 cm long and 2.5 cm in diameter
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Leucadendron salignum |
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The
leaves are sharply pointed and the short neat bush grows from one to
four feet in height. The colouring of the foliage of this plant is
brilliant and variegated. Some of the topmost leaves are bright red
others brilliant yellow or yellow tipped with apricot.
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Leucadendron sessile |
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A short, dense shrub
growing to a height of no more than five feet. Grows well in soils
of heavy clay as well as well draining granite.
When young the
involucral leaves are yellow but turn red in older plants. Flowers
in spring. A particularly attractive leucadendron.
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Leucadendron tinctum |
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L.
tinctum also known as the Rose Cockade has broad upper leaves, pale
green or creamy yellow, flushed with a deep rose near the centre.
The female generally has the pale green leaves and the male the
yellow leaves.
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