Description
This has leathery leaves, edged with scarlet hairs borne throughout the autumn and winter but vanishing in summer when the plant becomes dormant.
With the advent of autumn rains the plant makes spectacular crimson-red stems topped by a flower head surrounded by small, but striking coloured, vivid crimson bracts. Inside the bracts are masses of quite wide ,bright red, tubular flowers all crowded together. These have filaments sticking out from each flower, carrying the yellow anthers.
Our new stock is raised from material of a scarce, very robust and strong growing form. The mature leaves are huge, rounded and are some 20 cm x 20 cm. Originally from Fynbos habitats near Villiersdforp in the western Cape.