Leucadendron argenteum fresh and delicate

Young stem-tip leaves of Leucadendron argenteum have a delicate, refined aspect. The smooth, silvery, hair covering on the neat, erect leaves, all similarly pointed and without blemish, does maintenance magic. It calls into question the plausibility of the eventful lives these leaves lead. Stormy violence in winter weather that turns to hot, dry and windy testing and tossing of plant parts in the summer of the Cape Mediterranean climate, does little harm to the resilient silver tree foliage.

The leaves are up to 15 cm long and 2 cm wide (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Rebelo, 1995; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).