This beautiful plant has prominent, showy, red and orange flower heads that in bud are reminiscent of a bowl of strawberries, borne above erect stems covered in large velvety leaves. It is attractive wherever it grows, be it in the garden or the wild. Syncarpha eximi a grows on rocky, cool and moist south-facing sandstone slopes in fynbos vegetation. It is endemic to the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, growing mainly in the Langeberg but also as far as the Tsitsikamma and Out

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Size: 3048px × 3982px 25.8cm × 33.7cm - 300dpi
Location: Kirstenbosch, South Africa
Photo credit: © Simon Joubert / AfriPics
License: Licensed
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Categories: Colours
Flowers

Keywords: cape, eximia, flower, red, south africa, strawberry, syncarpha, everlasting