Leucospermum bolusii

Description

Leucospermum bolusii is a shrub native to South Africa. It grows to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in height, and has nearly hairless leaves with a single apical tooth. The leaves are oval shaped and range from 25–45 mm (0.98–1.77 in) in length. The flower heads are about 2 cm in diameter, slightly flattened globe shaped, are set on a stalk of about 1 cm and crowded with up to eight together at the tip og the braches. They each contain 50–100 small, sweetly scented creamy white flowers, that later turn light pink. Flowering takes place between September and December. It is called Gordon’s Bay pincushion in English and witluisiesbos in Afrikaans. L. bolusii is an evergreen, upright to spreading, rounded shrublet of up to 1½ m (5 ft) in diameter that grows from a single main stem. The flowering branches are upright, slender, 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) in diameter and covered in felty hairs. The leaves that may have some powdery hair when young, lack a stalk, are slightly overlapping, more or less oriented upright, oval to elliptic in shape, 2½–4½ cm (1.0–1.8 in) long, ¾–1½ cm (0.3–0.6 in) wide, with a pointy to blunt, bony tip, usually an entire margin, but sometimes with two or three bony teeth.