Cape Silver Tree
Leucadendron argenteum (L.) R.Br.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 8.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Proteaceae
Also called Silvertree, Silver Tree, Silver Conetree, Silver Pine Tree, Silvercone
Formerly Euryspermum argenteum, Protea argentea
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 6.5 m to 9.5 mRead from Wikipedia and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 5–7 m; RHS 8–12 m
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -5 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Afrikaans
- Silwerboom, silverboom, Witteboom
- Japanese
- ギンヨウジュ
- Russian
- Левкадендрон серебристый, Серебряное дерево
- German
- Silberbaum
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis balkšvis
- Chinese (China)
- 银叶木百合
- Finnish
- isohopeapuu
- Slovak
- leukadendron strieborný
- Chinese
- 银树, 木百合
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Sølvtre
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Leucadendron argenteum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.