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Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike

Leucadendron / Conebush

1 grower · 1 size · from $19.95 ex GST

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Safari Goldstrike (Leucadendron 'Safari Goldstrike'), written Safari Gold Strike on Australian growers' lists, is a female leucadendron from New Zealand, an upright shrub whose colour is yellow, grown in full sun by the Chicago Botanic Garden's account. The references read say little more of it than that: none gives its mature size or its parentage. The full account of leucadendrons in Australia is on the Safari Sunset page.
Illustration of Leucadendron 'Safari Goldstrike': an upright shoot with narrow, leathery green leaves set singly up the stem, ending in a cone-like female flower head of overlapping bracts ringed by bright yellow bracts
Leucadendron 'Safari Goldstrike', a shoot tip with its flower head and yellow bracts
Type
Evergreen shrub
Flowers
Yellow
Sun
Full sun
In Australia
Not native
GrowerPrice
Nurserylink200mm$19.95

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Growing leucadendron Safari Gold Strike

The Chicago Botanic Garden, in Illinois, gives it full sun and rates it for USDA zones 8 to 10, an American scale that is not an Australian climate zone. No Australian reference read gives Safari Goldstrike a frost or drought rating or a soil, and the register gives no growing notes for it.

A Queensland Government kit written for cut-flower growers, which its publisher marks as no longer current, counts Phytophthora root rot among the main disadvantages of leucadendrons as a group. Its other notes for the genus, and what South Australia's Plant Selector says of soil, phosphorus, drought and frost for another cultivar, are on the Safari Sunset page; those figures belong to that plant, not this one.

Using leucadendron Safari Gold Strike

The Chicago Botanic Garden, an American reference, lists Safari Goldstrike for screens and hedges and for beds and borders. No Australian reference read gives its uses, and with no mature size from any reference this page gives no planting distance: ask the grower what size its plants reach before setting out a screen. For how leucadendrons are grown and used in Australia, from streetscapes to cut flowers, see the Safari Sunset page.

What to check before you buy

Three names are easily confused. Safari Goldstrike is a female New Zealand cultivar; the International Protea Cultivar Register records PBR (plant breeders' rights) granted for it in New Zealand in 1997, which it gives as expiring in 2020, and in South Africa in 2003, expiring in 2028. Neither grant is Australian. Safari Gold is a different plant: the register gives it as another name for Red Gem, and HortFlora lists both as names for the cultivar Gem. Safari Sunset is a third, a red New Zealand cultivar. Confirm the full name with the grower before comparing prices. Look at the roots before buying, given the genus's root rot; the HortOS guide to nursery plant quality says what to check. Stock moving between states travels under the state and territory biosecurity rules on moving plants and soil.

Used forhedging and screening

Prices are set by each grower and shown ex GST. Availability is confirmed by the grower at order.

Common questions

Who grows Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike wholesale in Australia?
1 wholesale grower lists Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike come in?
Growers on HortOS list Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike in 200mm.
How do I order Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike from these growers?
HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.
How big does Safari Goldstrike grow?
No reference read gives a mature height or spread. The Chicago Botanic Garden describes it as an upright shrub, and the genus, by HortFlora, takes in both shrubs and trees, so ask the grower what size its plants reach.
What colour is Safari Goldstrike?
Yellow, by the Chicago Botanic Garden in Illinois, which gives its bloom time there as November through to April, months of the northern hemisphere. The register gives no colour or season, and no Australian reference read gives its season here.
Is Safari Goldstrike the same plant as Safari Gold?
No. The International Protea Cultivar Register gives Safari Gold as another name for Red Gem, and HortFlora lists Safari Gold and Red Gem as other names for the cultivar Gem. Safari Goldstrike has its own entry in the register, as a female cultivar from New Zealand.
What are the parents of Safari Goldstrike?
The register gives no parentage, and no other reference read does either; it records Safari Goldstrike only as a female leucadendron from New Zealand. The genus is South African by HortFlora, so it is an exotic plant in Australia.
Will Safari Goldstrike grow in my climate?
No Australian reference read says. The Chicago Botanic Garden's USDA zones 8 to 10 are an American scale, not an Australian climate zone, so ask the grower how its stock has done where you plan to plant.

Sources

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Leucadendron Safari Gold Strike (Leucadendron 'Safari Goldstrike'), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/leucadendron-safari-gold-strike.

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