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Leucadendron (Greek, white tree). Proteaceae. This genus includes the celebrated silver-tree of the Cape of Good Hope, which has a striking and characteristic habit, and leaves densely covered with white silky hairs.
 
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Shrubs or trees, all of S. Afr., above 60 in number: leaves mostly narrow, sometimes even needle-like, entire, glabrous or silvery-tomentose, with a hardened apex: flowers dioecious, regular; male flowers usually many, in heads, each subtended by a bract and the head sometimes involucrate, the perianth-segms. separated to the middle or beyond, the anthers oblong or linear and sessile at the base of the perianth-limb; female flowers subtended by woody bracts and aggregated into cone-like heads, the perianth more deeply divided than that of the male flowers, bearing narrow staminodia.
 
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Read about Leucadendron in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Leucadendron (Greek, white tree). Proteaceae. This genus includes the celebrated silver-tree of the Cape of Good Hope, which has a striking and characteristic habit, and leaves densely covered with white silky hairs.

Shrubs or trees, all of S. Afr., above 60 in number: leaves mostly narrow, sometimes even needle-like, entire, glabrous or silvery-tomentose, with a hardened apex: flowers dioecious, regular; male flowers usually many, in heads, each subtended by a bract and the head sometimes involucrate, the perianth-segms. separated to the middle or beyond, the anthers oblong or linear and sessile at the base of the perianth-limb; female flowers subtended by woody bracts and aggregated into cone-like heads, the perianth more deeply divided than that of the male flowers, bearing narrow staminodia.


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