The California Protea Association is an Association for Growers of Exotic Protea Flowers.
The California Protea Association (CPA) is a non-profit corporation that works to improve and develop cultivars and promotes the marketing of Protea. It was formed to assist its members to learn more about how to successfully make Protea flowers a more important part of California floriculture. The California Protea Association is not a retailer or shipper of Protea, but works to assist those who cultivate, sell and purchase California Protea flowers.
Link to the California Protea Association:
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Video: GROWING FLOWERS - ABC RURAL
Chris Nicholls grows proteas and Australian natives for the cut flower industry.
Video: Neville and Proteas at the SF Zoo!
Neville is at the San Francisco Zoo looking at the Proteas! Funny thing, some scientists think this plant may be the link between the plant and animal world! Who knows!?!
ProteaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Subfamily:Proteoideae
Genus: Protea L.
Species: See text
Protea is both the botanical name and the English common name of a genus of flowering plants, sometimes also called sugarbushes.
The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carolus Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus who could change his form at will, because proteas have such different forms. Linneaus's genus was formed by merging a number of genera previously published by Herman Boerhaave, although precisely which of Boerhaave's genera were included in Linnaeus's Protea varied with each of Linnaeus's publications.
Proteas attracted the attention of botanists visiting the Cape of Good Hope in the 1600s. Many species were introduced to Europe in the 1700s, enjoying a unique popularity at the time amongst botanists.
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