About Leucadendron stellare (Sims) Steud.
Leucadendron stellare, commonly called the star conebush, is a flowering shrub in the genus Leucadendron. It is a component of the fynbos biome. This plant is native to the Western Cape province of South Africa, where it grows in an area ranging from the Cape Flats to the Berg River Valley, and on the plains at Aurora. The shrub reaches a height of 2 meters, and it flowers between September and October each year. It can re-sprout from its base after a fire occurs. Its seeds are retained in a cone on the female plant, and they fall out of the cone to the ground two months after flowering. L. stellare is a unisexual species, with individual plants producing either all male or all female flowers. Its flowers are pollinated by insects. It grows primarily on flat terrain, in dry sand that overlies clay soil, at elevations between 30 and 170 meters. In Afrikaans, this species is called Stertolbos.
