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Arid Conebushes - Leucadendrons


Red-edged Conebush - Leucadendron arcuatum

Female Male
Red-edged Conebush - Photo: Nigel Forshaw Red-edged Conebush - Photo: Nigel Forshaw Habit: A sprawling shrub up 1.3m tall
Fire survival: Resprouts from underground bole
Sexual system: Flowers of one sex on separate plants
Flowers: September - October
Pollinator: Insects
Fruit:
Released two months after flowering
Seed dispersal: Rodents
Seed storage: Dropped to gound after three months ripening and cached by rodents
Rarity status: Not rare, isolated patches although extensive populations occur
Habitat: Stony, sandstone, soils, 800-1700m
Distribution: Cederberg, Olifants River Koue Bokkeveld, Groot Winterhoek Mountains, Elandskloof, Hex River, Keeromsberg and Kwadouw Mountains

Red-edged Conebush - Leucadendron crassulifolium

Female Male
Red-edged Conebush - Photo: Nigel Forshaw Red-edged Conebush - Photo: Nigel Forshaw Habit: An upright shrub up to 3m tall
Fire survival: Killed, only seeds survive
Sexual system: Flowers of one sex on separate plants
Flowers: September
Pollinator: Insects
Fruit:
Released two months after flowering
Seed dispersal: Rodents
Seed storage: Dropped to gound after three months ripening and cached by rodents
Rarity status: Rare,
Habitat: Stony, sandstone, soils, 800-1700m
Distribution: Hex River, Keeromsberg and Kwadouw Mountains
Note: At present this species is still included under Leucadendron arcuatum, which is however a resprouter

Gideon's Kop Conebush - Leucadendron bonum

Female Male
Gideonskop Conebush - Photo: Nigel Forshaw Gideonskop Conebush - Photo: NBI Collection Habit: A erect shrub up 1.6m tall
Fire survival: Killed, only seeds survive
Sexual system: Flowers of one sex on separate plants
Flowers: October
Pollinator: Unknown - the flowerheads are unique in opening and closing (at night and when overcast)
Fruit: Stored on plant, released after fire
Seed dispersal: Rodents
Seed storage: Dropped to gound after three months ripening and cached by rodents
Rarity status: Endangered, known from two dense stands totalling 250 plants
Habitat: Level, dry, sandy soil, among rocks, 1950-2000m
Distribution: Koue Bokkeveld at Gideonskop

The Gideon's Kop Conebush - Leucadendron bonum habitat in the Koue Bokkeveld

Gideons Kop Conebush - Photo: Wendy Paisley

The large plant in the above photograph is Water Sugarbush - Protea punctata. The Gideon's Kop Conebushes are the smaller plants in the lower right half of the photograph


Grey Conebush - Leucadendron pubescens

Female
Grey Conebush - Photo: NBI Collection Habit: A erect shrub up2.5m tall
Fire survival: Killed, only seeds survive
Sexual system: Flowers of one sex on separate plants
Flowers: June - October, mainly July
Pollinator: Small beetles
Fruit: Stored on plant, released after fire
Seed dispersal: Rodents
Seed storage: Dropped to gound after three months ripening and cached by rodents
Rarity status: Not threatened, extremely common
Habitat: Sandstone and quartzite soils, 60-1700m
Distribution: Bokkeveld escarpment, Gifberg, Cederberg, Piketberg, Olifants River, Sandveld, Koue Bokkeveld, Hex River, Bonteberg and Kwadouw Mountains, Witteberg and Touwsberg

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