Leucospermum Grandiflorum - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Indigenous Shrub The rattle and bell designations

The rattle and bell designations describe the tendency of loose seeds to rattle inside a dried cascabel when shaken

with four turned-back petals

becoming thick dark blackish-brown and fissured on old trees

white to pale yellow flowers with a red reverse and growing to 20cm

Though generally stubbier with thinner walls

Leucospermum Grandiflorum - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Indigenous Shrub The rattle and bell designationsLeucospermum also known as pincushion Protea is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, native to Zimbabwe and South Africa, where they occupy a variety of habitats, including scrub, forest, and mountain slopes. They are evergreen shrubs (rarely small trees) growing to 0. 5 5 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, tough and leathery, simple, linear to lanceolate, 2 12 cm long and 0. 5 3 cm broad, with a serrated