Pincushion Protea Tango is a photograph by Venetia Featherstone-Witty which was uploaded on August 9th, 2014.
Pincushion Protea Tango
Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes... more
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Pincushion Protea Tango
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Venetia Featherstone-Witty
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Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of South African flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos).The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will, because they have such a wide variety of forms.The Proteaceae family to which proteas belong is an ancient one. Its ancestors grew in Gondwana, 300 million years ago. Proteaceae is divided into two subfamilies: the Proteoideae, best represented in southern Africa, and the Grevilleoideae, concentrated in Australia and South America and the other smaller segments of Gondwana that are now part of eastern Asia. Africa shares only one genus with Madagascar, whereas South America and Australia share many common genera which indicates they separated from Africa before they separated from each other.
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