none can beat the bizarre yet enhancing beauty of the protea. From the robust, intense-colored sunburst pincushion to the deceiving duchess, that looks more like feathers than a flower ...

featuring linear to narrowly oblong olive-green leaves with fine black points. Beginning in June and continuing until late August, cone-shaped flowers flush with a pinkish-carmine hue and tipped ...

The Protea flower with pink and yellow petals, is the national flower of South Africa, and hence their cricket team is called proteas. Why is the South African cricket team called "proteas"?