'Fama White', 'Snowmaiden', and 'Flutter Pure White' are some popular varieties of white scabiosa. What is the difference between pincushion flower (Scabiosa) and pincushion protea (Leucospermum)?

Among them are the colorful, exotic-looking shrubby pincushions, Leucospermum. These Protea cousins are well known in San Diego’s cut-flower industry.

Among the wonderful members of the Protea family is a genus of South African shrubs named Leucospermum, commonly referred to as Pincushions.

Pincushion (Leucospermum cordifolium). This rounded spreading shrub grows to 6 feet in diameter and about 5 feet high, one to three large inflorescences at the end of a single stem.

Juanita Mason of Brayleigh farm, on the outskirts of Greytown, recently harvested her first flowers from two- year-old Leucospermum (pincushion) plants in what she hopes will be the beginning of a ...

Her latest fabric design is a graphic rendering of a pincushion protea (Leucospermum cordifolium), which started out as a vinyl wall decal. “A lot of my designs come from doing something else.

Pincushion Proteas or Leucospermum is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae.