Protea Species, Dwarf Silver Sugarbush

I have not grown this rare plant. Very few Protea roupelliae subsp. hamiltonii plants can be found growing natively in the wild in Afica...Read More where it can be found growing in the Nelshoogte area between Barbeton and Badplaas. In 2002, there were only about 180 plants growing in the wild. It is a prostrate woody shrub that forms short small mats 300 mm tall and 1 meter wide. Its branches are up to 50 cm long. Its has slender, long, yellow, spoon-shaped bracts that surround the white blooms. When young , the dark green leaves are covered with silvery hairs. As the leaves mature, they lose the hairs.