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Botanical details
- Family
- Proteaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Leucadendron
- Genus description
Leucadendron are small evergreen trees and shrubs grown for their cone-like clusters of flowers surrounded by large, leaf-like, often colourful bracts. Both male and female plants are needed to produce fruiting cones. The stems are clothed in leathery, stalkless leaves
- Name status
Correct
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