Cone bush

Common name for several species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cone bush, conebush, or cone-bush is a common name for various plants, usually dicotyledonous shrubs that bear their flowers and seeds in compact, cone-shaped inflorescences and infructescences. The plants that the name most frequently applies to are members of the Proteaceae, and in particular the Australian genus Isopogon[1] and the African genus Leucadendron.[2]

Nepean cone bush (Isopogon dawsonii), infructescence after blooming
Male of Sun Cone Bush (Leucadendron sessile) inflorescences in full bloom

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