Protea Eximia - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Pepper Cress To 18m much branched tree

To 18m much branched tree

silhouetted by the setting sun

seed and embryo which looks like in all details to Astrophytum capricorne

lance-shaped toothed leaves

An extension of the midrib (the tendril)

Protea Eximia - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Pepper Cress To 18m much branched treeProtea eximia, also known as the broad leaved sugar bush is a shrub that may become a small tree, which occurs in mountain fynbos on mainly acidic sandy soils; the species was very well known under its old name of Protea latifolia. The flowers have awns that are covered in purple black velvety hairs, and are contained within a series of rings of involucral bracts that have the appearance of petals. The fruit is a densely hairy nut, many of which are