Protea Plant. However, they are closely related to some of our showiest plants, such as banksias, grevilleas and waratahs. Subtropical climates and tropical regions.
The african landscape (and the australian one too) have often been engulfed by fire, thus whenever this occurs the proteas are able to continue its evolution and survive without much damage (3). Protea as cut flowers in a bouquet. Proteas naturally occur in the southern hemisphere because of this, it is believed that the protea genus originated on.