http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3262 3262 Aulax is a dioecious genus (separate male and female plants). This is a female flower head. Picture taken on the slopes of Nooienskop, Greyton, W CApe http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3264 3264 Aulax is a dioecious (separate male and female plants) genus. This is the male flower head Picture taken on the slopes of Nooienskop, Greyton, W CApe. Jan 2004 http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3266 3266 Aulax is a dioecious genus (male and female flowers on separate plants). This is a mature female with seeds clasped in the bracts Picture taken on the slopes of Nooienskop, Greyton, W CApe http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3230 3230 A maturing female Pallasia flower head http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3232 3232 http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3242 3242 http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3240 3240 The only member of the Genus. Produces a poisonous fruit which looks like an almond but becomes edible if soaked. Grows along river courses. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3325 3325 A low growing bush with flower heads about 12 mm across. This one found near Silvermine on the Cape Peninsula. It only occurs from Silvermine southwards. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3244 3244 The largest of the Proteas, thrives on the southern slopes of the Riviersonderend mountains. Flowers all year - this one taken in Feb 2004 http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3359 3359 A female cone almost ready to distribute its nut-like seeds. Oct/Nov. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3361 3361 An immature female cone. Flowering in July. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3347 3347 Flowering June-July http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3353 3353 Flowering June-July http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3373 3373 The yellow form of reflexum native to the Cedarberg but also cultivated in gardens. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3234 3234 http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3236 3236 http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3363 3363 Flowering June http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3351 3351 The needle leafed leucadendron. The leaves resemble pine needles on the female plant and the cones resemble immature pine cones. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3349 3349 A mature female cone resembles a pine cone. In fact the whole reproductive process of this species is uncannily conifer-like. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3355 3355 The masses of pollen on the pollen head are shed in clouds to enable efficient wind pollination. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3341 3341 A spidery Leucadendron photographed above Muisenberg. (Contrib. S & S Goulding) http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3246 3246 A small leucospermum growing near Greyton, W Cape. July 2004. Flower head 25mm - 35 mm http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3369 3369 Native to the Overberg but widely hybridised and cultivated. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3371 3371 Flowers all year round in the Riviersonderend mountains. http://www.livingfynbos.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3367 3367 A close-up of a cultivated form of L glabrum showing the pollen presenters withdrawing from the perianths. Typical of the Proteaceae.