It has a hearty stalk that extends deep underground, which is the plant’s defense mechanism against wildfires. The underground stems have dormant buds that will produce new growth …

Oct 9, 2014 · Many people don’t know that the Protea flower is adapted to survive ravaging veldfires. It needs the heat and intensity of fire in order to sustain its species. It produces new …

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Fire is one of the most characteristic features of both the Cape Floral Kingdom and the African savannas and grasslands and most proteas are adapted to survive fires in one of four ways:

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It is a resprouter after fire (i.e. it survives fires as underground stems, from which it resprouts after the above ground parts are killed by fire). It stores the fruit on the bush in hard fire-proof …

Protea subvestita Lipped White Protea is the only non-Cape species which is almost always killed by fire and regenerates only from seed. In most other genera and sections, there is a single …

Jul 21, 2020 · Many species have found ways of adapting to fire, either through fire stimulated germination of seed to an ability to resprout after a fire has moved through the landscape. The …

This is a slow-growing re-seeder after fire, and is thus suppressed with too frequent fires. Occurs in well-drained, sandy, acid to neutral soil, at altitudes ranging from 1200-2700m.

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