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Leucospermum Cordifolium Rourke

Salisb. Ex Knight

Description:

Orange flowers growing on green bush.

Habitat:

Spotted at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park

1 Species ID Suggestions

Leucospermum cordifolium


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8 Comments

CoralAvery
CoralAvery 12 years ago

Thanks aditi.812 and pierrewilhelmnaude!! :)

pierrewilhelmnaude
pierrewilhelmnaude 12 years ago

yep, my picture is from south africa so that fits.

CoralAvery
CoralAvery 12 years ago

Its probably right, they are most likely native to South Africa because they were found at the Safari Park. They look right, check out this site: http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantklm/leu...

pierrewilhelmnaude
pierrewilhelmnaude 12 years ago

I have a picture of a similar flower which corresponds to my suggestion. I may be wrong though

aditi.812
aditi.812 12 years ago

Yup, had me lost too. Couldn't narrow it down any further at all.

CoralAvery
CoralAvery 12 years ago

Looks like it, but there are so many different species.

aditi.812
aditi.812 12 years ago

Lovely flowers! They belong to the genus Leucospermum I think-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucospermu...

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Beautiful!

CoralAvery
Spotted by
CoralAvery

San Diego, California, USA

Spotted on May 3, 2010
Submitted on Aug 23, 2011

Spotted for Mission

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