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Protea aurea subsp. aurea styles like needles

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  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea dark pink
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea grown large
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea having escaped a big fire at Greyton
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea inside a young flowerhead
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea old head closed again
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea pink bud
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea stem-tip leaves
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea styles like needles
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea young and old heads
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea young flowerhead
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea young flowerhead
  • Protea aurea subsp. aurea, the long and the white and the old
  • Protea burchellii
  • Protea caffra flowerhead towards the end of its cycle
  • Protea cordata
  • Protea cordata

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The flower of Protea aurea subsp. aurea starts off as a long cylindrical bud, broad at the base and pointed at the top, like a rocket. It opens to display the inner flower parts initially neatly pressed against the creamy white to light greenish or pink flower (involucral) bracts. A cone-shaped opening is thus created in the centre, resembling a shuttlecock from which the styles protrude in a neat array. Towards the end of flowering the head morphs into random untidiness of spent perianths below the straight, spreading styles.

Flowering occurs all year round, more in the first half of the calendar year. Pollination is done by nectar consuming birds. Seed dispersal by the wind happens after long storage in the seed-head on the plant.

Unlike the leucadendrons the proteas have both sexes on the same plant and also in the same flower.

This photo was taken near Greyton at the western end of the plant's distribution (Manning, 2007; Rourke, 1980; http://protea.worldonline.co.za).

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