Strybing Arboretum - San Francisco Botanical Garden: Golden Gate Park, February 2, 2009

Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes.

The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will, because proteas have such different forms.

origin of this plant: South Africa

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Waimea/Kamuela

Kula Botanical Gardens, Maui

These types of Proteas originate in South Africa.

Photographed at Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco

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Species from South Africa

Protea in the garden of the Ferny Creek Horticultural society

In the The Swartberg Pass).

A King Protea with a view of the Langeberg mountains in the background

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Protea scolymocephala - UCBerkeley BG

(Proteaceae) - Royal Natal N.P., Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

Pretty tropical protea in the middle of February www.sendingsmiles.com/

Protea lepidocarpodendron

Common name: black bearded sugar bush

Family: proteaceae

Seen on Silvermine, Cape Town, South Africa

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Sunbird sitting on a protea.

Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.

Protea sp at Kilimanjaro - Marangu route. Scanned photo from 1995.

Photo d'un Protea susura lors de l'ouverture de la fleur

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Taken at the florist in the foyer of where I work - luv these protea flowers !!

These are native to south Africa but they belong to the same family as the Waratahs, Banksias, Hakeas and Grevilleas, which are the Australian branch of the Proteaceae family.

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Sugar Bush

... at least I think it's a protea of some kind (?)

Day trip to the enchanting Mt Tomah Botanic Gardens in the Blue Mountains, Sydney, NSW

22 March 2010

King Protea @ Kula, Maui

There are several plants of this species in the Ramskop Wildflower Garden, Clanwilliam, unlabeled.

Protea Hotel Hatfield

Protea snapped in Greyton, in the Overberg region of the Western Cape.

Protea cynaroides

Indigenous to the Western Cape

Protea species