The popularity of Leucadendron as cut flowers has encouraged the development of many new cultivars.
Most of the cultivars have an upright habit and the long branches have spirally arranged leaves along their length with terminal cone-like heads of small tubular flowers.
The leathery leaves vary and some are hairless and green whilst others are silver and covered in fine hairs.
Leucadendron have separate male and female plants - the flowers of these differ with the female being more cone like and the male flowers more pom-pom like.
The flowers are surrounded by leafy bracts that change colour during the flowering season to red, orange, cream, bronze and yellow. The intense colour last for many months adding colour to a winter garden or flower arrangement.
Cultivars include:
Sundance 1.5m Light green leaves, yellow bracts with red tips
Safari Magic 1.5m Blue green leaves and red bracts
Wildfire 1.5m Orange centre and pale yellow bracts
Red Gem 1.5m Orange to red bracts
Inca Gold 1.5m Bright yellow bracts