Plant ID

Guernsey Donkey2 · September 2019

I seem to have mislaid the label for this plant - can anyone identify it for me please? It doesn't produce flowers - but has these lovely red bracts(?), I think that is the name for them.

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Borderline · September 2019

Could it be Leucadendron Salignum, Cone Bush.

Silver surfer · September 2019

Sure looks like it.
What a wonderful shrub.

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&biw=1920&bih=927&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=e_-DXY_RH9KX8gLi8ou4DA&q=Leucadendron+Salignum%2C+cone+bush&oq=Leucadendron+Salignum%2C+cone+bush&gs_l=img.12...8032.13346..15043...0.0..0.205.998.7j2j1......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0j0i30j0i24.WMNeVRRPexY&ved=0ahUKEwjP-umI9t3kAhXSi1wKHWL5AscQ4dUDCAc

Fairygirl · September 2019

That's a striking looking plant @Guernsey Donkey2.
Never seen that before - every day's a school day eh?

Guernsey Donkey2 · September 2019

Thank you for helping to identify this plant which we have had for around 5 years now - reading that it is a native of Australia and likes hot dry conditions is fitting for our front garden which is never watered and is so hot, dry and sunny. This is the best year for this plant which has grown a fair bit in the past few months - I will look out for the cones forming in the "flowers", I have never seen any before.

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