Protea burchellii

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Nectar

The flower nectar is eaten fresh as a snack and can be used to make syrup.

Where to Find It

It is a subtropical plant.

Africa, South Africa*, Southern Africa,

Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Identify

A shrub. It grows 2 m tall. It can spread to 3 m across. It has a single main stem. The branches are 5-8 mm across. The leaves are narrow and 7-17 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. The flowering shoots are 9-11 cm long by 5-7 cm wide.

Wikipedia

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Protea burchellii, also known as Burchell's sugarbush, is a flowering shrub in the genus Protea, which is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa. The shrub is known by the vernacular name of blinksuikerbos in the Afrikaans language.

Names & Synonyms

Protea pulchra Rycroft

References (2)

Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 93
Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179

What to Eat

Where to Find It

How to Identify

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