The largest of the proteas, the King Protea, is South Africa's national flower. It has lent its name to the national cricket team and countless brands.

Through trial and error, Thuynsma has been able to cultivate close to 200 protea varieties, including some long forgotten and abandoned by farmers in their original habitats.

"They're all different," the 55-year-old farmer said of the assorted blooms from the diverse Proteaceae family that has more than 350 species in South Africa, from firework-like "pincushion ...

Ms Dalton dedicated the new four-year extension of funding, worth $2.5m, in the upcoming state budget to dedicated Protea Place volunteer Ms Griffiths, who was killed in April in a house fire.

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King Edward VII High School in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, has produced top sportsmen and businesspeople, including Gary Player, Graeme Smith, and Sir Donald Gordon. Of the Financial Mail’s ...

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 ...

And she’s not gonna be a pin cushion. We’re not gonna allow that to happen.” The senator did not specify which vaccines his granddaughter will not be getting, if any.

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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.