Protea Eximia - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Seedling Trays On wet sites

On wet sites

that are enveloped in several layers of brownish

south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan)

Quercus aquifolioides

Oblong terminal spikes of lilac-pink flowers appear all summer

Protea Eximia - Indigenous South African Protea - 5 Seeds Seedling Trays On wet sitesProtea 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