what is the name of this plant?

[Frank Fremerey]

What is this?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Could be a Protea? Difficult to identify when so little of the plant is seen. Is this a perennial plant, or a shrub/tree?

[Frank Fremerey]

Here is another pic of another part of the plant

[elsa hoffmann]

Protea family? Pincushion?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

That was my initial assumption too ... but this is not anything I'm familiar with.

Perhaps Fons B. can contribute?

[Frank Fremerey]

Another view

[elsa hoffmann]

I would still say Protea family...

[Andrea B.]

some kind of bottlebrush ?
bottlebrush = Callistemon.
This grows in the western US desert areas. So it probably is not that.
And I think the leaves are wrong for its being Callistemon.

There is also some Australian bottlebrush. Beaufortia.

Where did you find this plant, Frank?

Bjørn, you photographed a bottlebrush in Twenty-Neen Palms.

[Frank Fremerey]

Light is better now after the rain:

[Frank Fremerey]

Bottlebrush is a good comparison

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Callistemon is in the Myrtle family and bears close similarity to your plant.

Andrea remembers incorrectly as I cannot find any shots of this genus from the US trip in 2012. However, I do have some from South Africa in 2009.

[Frank Fremerey]

Fascinating Fauna in the Garden of my father's wife

[Frank Fremerey]

thank you!!!

[rayB]

Definitely Callistemon from Australia. Not sure the exact species. Could be C. glaucus or maybe C. personii. Have hundreds of blooms here in our garden at the height of summer. Had a second flowering this year during Autumn, but now all finished. Banksias currently looking brilliant.

rayB

[Frank Fremerey]

Very good to know that here are the people who know these things