Leucospermum conocarpodendron

Leucospermum conocarpodendron, the green tree pincushion and in Afrikaans kreupelhout (brushwood), is a shrub of about 3 m in height or a small tree of about 5 m, from 3 m to 6 m wide (SA Tree List No. 84). The basal stem is thick and densely hairy. The bark is thick, reddish grey or dark to almost black, nearly smooth with leaf markings.

Flowering happens from late winter to early summer.

The species distribution is in the far southwest of the Western Cape, from the Cape Peninsula to Paarl and Stanford.

The habitat is dry, lower slopes of rocky fynbos and renosterveld in granitic and sandstone soils. Both subspecies have habitat populations considered near threatened early in the twenty first century, due to urbanisation and agriculture (Manning, 2009; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Rebelo, 1995; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).