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Leucospermum prostratum (Yellow trailing pincushion)

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Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Order: Proteales > Family: Proteaceae > Genus: Leucospermum 

Leucospermum prostratum (Yellow trailing pincushion)

Leucospermum prostratum flowering in early summer at Highlands in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Leucospermum prostratum (Yellow trailing pincushion)

Monkey Beetles mating on a Leucospermum prostratum flowerhead in early summer on the Highlands mountains in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]