Sugarbushes or Featherbushes from the greater Cape Province of South Africa. The grow as very ornamental medium sized to tall shrubs or low trees and have most decorative, quite large flowers above leathery leaves. All are frost resistant enough to be grown in a protected spot in any humus rich, well drained soil in the open garden down to in USDA Climate Zone 9 (lowest winter temperatures of -7°C/ 20°F). In parts of Central Europe with lower average winter temperatures, all Protea species are good pot or container plants for an unheated wintergarden or greenhouse and will withstand a few degrees of temporary freezing without any major leaf burn. Expected flowering time is given for the northern hemisphere (e.g. Central Europe and North America).
For detailed information on sowing and cultivation of sugarbushes please refer to this page: Sowing and Cultivation for Proteaceae from South Africa.
All are USDA Climate Zone 9.
10 seeds per package.
Protea (South African Sugarbush or Featherbush)
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Protea acuminata
1 (2)m, erect shrub from sandy flats at 400m. Only few isolated populations left Nieuwdtville, Cederberg, and Stettynskloof to Riversonderderend Mountains. Has smooth linear leaves, flowers are small with wine red bracts in II-VI.
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| seed package 2376 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea aurea
3 (5)m, oblong leaves, candle shaped buds open to a cream-pink flower. Very easy and adaptable species from sandy soils at 800m. XII-VII.
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| seed package 2379 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea burchelii
1 (2)m, erect spreading shrub with fairly large cup shaped white greenish to pink red bearded flowers. Easy in rich soils. II-IV .
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| seed package 2380 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea caffra
3 (7)m, large shrub to small, multi branching tree, long elliptic leaves and completely unfolding pink flower cup. IX-XII.
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| seed package 2381 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea canaliculata
100 (150)cm, small erect growing shrub with long, narrow, light green leaves and flat flower heads, enclosed by dark red bracts. From rocky soils at up to 1.650m in Hex River region to Waboomsberg and Swartberg. IX-XII.
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| seed package 2382 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea compacta
2 (4)m, erect lax growing shrub with cup shaped flowers with long pink involucral bracts and ciliate margins. Very attractive species for sandy soils. III-IX.
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| seed package 2384 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea coronata
2 (3)m, erect shrub with deep cup shaped flowers with apple green bracts and white to pink woolly awns forming a crown. Grow in heavy clay soils at some 750m in the Bredasdorp and Outeniqua Mountains. IV-X.
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| seed package 2414 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea cynaroides
150 (250)cm, King Protea, multi-stemmed upright shrub from Cederberg to Port Elizabeth with very distinctive leaves, huge flower heads with white, red and pink bracts all year. Very easy. I-XII.
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| seed package 2416 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea effusa Exclusive
100 (150)cm, small, erect growing shrub with sliver to bluish green leaves and lime yellow to reddish flower cups. XI-XII.
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| seed package 2417 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea eximia
250 (500)cm, broad leather like silver green leaves with red margins, large, broadly opening, scarlet red flower cups. From sandstone and quartzite soils at up to 1.000m from Keeromsberg, Langeberg, Swartberg to Kouda Mountains and Elandsberg. VI-IX.
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| seed package 2418 | € 3,99* |
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Protea grandiceps
2m, very rare species known from only a dozen isolated sites in the Riviersonderend Mountains to Kammansie Mountains. Has broad oval glaucous leaves, pink to red flowers with dense white-maroon beards. VII-XI.
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| seed package 2421 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea humiflora Exclusive
2m, low shrub with sprawling stems, white flower heads with red margins. From dry slopes in Du Toitskloof to Waboomsberg. II-V.
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| seed package 2075 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea lacticolor
2 (6)m, glaucous leaves, creamy white to pink flowers with silky-fringed bracts. Very showy species growing at stream banks at some 1.500m from Slanghoek to Groenland Mountains. X--III.
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| seed package 2076 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea laurifolia
2 (8)m, erect shrub or smaller tree, glaucous leaves with undulated margins, white to pink bearded flowers all year long. Grows in sandy or granite soils at 1.200m from Nieuwoudville to Franschhoek and Anysberg. V-X.
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| seed package 2077 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea longifolia
150cm, Protea from Du Toitskloof to Agulhas in sandy soils at some 1.000m. Makes long narrow leaves, creamy white-pink and green bracts with prominent woolly black knob in center. V-VIII.
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| seed package 2036 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea lorifolia
150 (300)cm, compact growing round shrub with long silver green leaves. Dense flower heads in orange brown, reddish inside. Native to sandstone soils in Riviersonderend Mountains to Riebeek East and Bosberg. X-IV.
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| seed package 2116 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea magnifica
50 (100)cm, sprawling shrub from the montane zone near the snow line at some 2.700 with large heavily bearded flowers with white-pink bracts around hairy-tipped perianth. Very variable species from Koue Bokkeveld to central Langeberg. VII-XI.
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| seed package 2035 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea mundii
3 (8)m, large shrub or tree, small oblong creamy white flowers. Very easy and resistant species from moist slopes and forest margins at 1.300m in Kogelberg to Klein River Mountains and Winterhoek Mountains. III-VII.
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| seed package 2117 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea neriifolia
2 (3)m, narrow leaves, flower bracts creamy green to deep pink, beard white to purple-black. Variable species growing in sandstone at some 1.300m from Hottentots-Holland Mountains to Potberg, Tulbagh and Ceres. V-XII.
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| seed package 2251 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea obtusifolia
2 (4)m, rich dark green leaves, large white red flowers. From alkaline soils growing on hills at some 200m in the Elim, Bredasdorp and Riversdale Flats areas. III-IX.
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| seed package 2260 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea punctata
2 (4)m, blue green leaves, water lily like flowers, bracts open wide and pink to white-pink. Native to Cederberg to Riviersonderend Mountains growing in sandstone or shale slopes. X-IV.
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| seed package 2029 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea roupelliae
2 (4)m, erect growing shrub with highly decorative silver green, leathery leaves and scarlet red flower bracts, inside contrasting black. Native to NW province, and Mpumalanga. VIII-XI.
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| seed package 2300 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea scabriuscula Exclusive
30 (60)cm, small shrub with only a broad main stem and medium sized, cream white flower cups, marked with red. IX-XII.
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| seed package 2302 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea scolymocephala
100 (150)cm, small erect growing shrub with narrow, long intense green leaves and completely unfolding, cream white to lemon white flower heads. Becoming increasingly rare in sandy flats at up to 500m in Gifberg to Cape Peninsula (Kleimond to Hawston). XII-V.
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| seed package 2303 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea speciosa Exclusive
50 (100)cm, woody, low shrub with densely arranged leaves and a showy, terminally born, quite large, intense pink and brownish flower-cup. For any rich, very well drained, preferably rocky soil in a sunny spot throughout the year, always carefully water. In winter keep plants drier at a minimum of some 10°C with sufficient air-ventilation. VII-VIII.
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| seed package 3697 | € 3,79* | ||
Protea subvestita
2 (5)m, elliptical leaves, creamy white-pink to deep carmine flowers. Native to Fynbos areas above 2.000m from Free State, Lesotho, Eastern Cape to Klein Swartberg. IX-V.
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| seed package 2304 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea sulphurea
30 (60)cm, low dense shrub with attractive small, sliver green leaves and large, bowing flower heads with rose red bracts, cream yellow inside. Native to arid sandstone soils at up to 1600m in Hex River Mountains to Swartberg and Waboomsberg. X-XI.
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| seed package 2305 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea susannae Exclusive
2 (3)m, crushed leaves have a slight sulphurous odor, attractive oblong brownish-pink flowers. From sandy alkaline to neutral soils at 200m in the Elim, Bredasdorp and Riversdale Flats area. III-IX.
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| seed package 2366 | € 3,99* | ||
Protea welwitschii Exclusive
1.5m, small shrub with numerous stems arising from the rootstock. Native to Northern Province, Zimbabwe to Mozambique and Uganda. Many flower heads, creamy white bracts open to form a saucer. Very decorative, but not easy. IV-VII.
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| seed package 2367 | € 3,99* | ||
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