Amongst the rata and pohutukawa in Diana Young's Bluff garden grew a number of leucadendrons. The flowers of this one were massive and attractive. The soil in which they were growing was thin and mean, which seemed to be helping all of those difficult-to-grow-in-Southland trees and shrubs, thrive.
I imagine the honey-eaters of our Pacific islands delight in these flowers. Certainly, they were all over the pohutes.
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This plant actually looks more like a Protea than a "Leucadendron". You don't happen to know the plants full Latin name by chance?
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