Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Articles
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Glossary
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Subject Index
Home Home » GENERA P » Protea » Protea laurifolia flowerhead
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 12,082
Total number of hits on all images: 7,379,700

Protea laurifolia flowerhead

Protea laurifolia flowerhead
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 78 of 159  
Next Next
Image 80 of 159  
  • Protea glabra neat young flowerhead
  • Protea glabra old stem-tip
  • Protea glabra receptacle cones
  • Protea glabra red leaves with hairy margins
  • Protea glabra when the carnival is over
  • Protea glabra, tomorrow's big bush
  • Protea laurifolia
  • Protea laurifolia broad bushes
  • Protea laurifolia flowerhead
  • Protea laurifolia inside the cup
  • Protea laurifolia leaves
  • Protea laurifolia old flowerhead
  • Protea laurifolia old tree
  • Protea laurifolia stem-tips
  • Protea longifolia
  • Protea longifolia flowerhead
  • Protea longifolia long leaves

Image information

Description

The open flowerhead of Protea laurifolia is slightly obconical, the truncated cone section widening only slightly towards its hairy upper end. The involucral bracts overlapping each other to form a container for the individual florets are pale pink.

Bract-tips in the inner, taller rows have glossy black hair, the lower parts of bract margins are white-haired if hairy at all. Surface hairs on the bracts are very short where present and soft, velvety.

The tips of the short, outer bracts that did not acquire black colouring curve out (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Rourke, 1980; iNaturalist).

Hits
414
Photographer
Thabo Maphisa
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery