As this plant comes from areas of well-draining granite and sandstone soils on dry coastal mountain slopes it appreciates being planted in the garden in an open sunny site with well drained soils. It is tolerant of light frosts and temperatures to 25-30° F. This plant has proven itself a good garden plant in southern California and is notable also for its long lasting cut flowers.

In South Africa this species gets to be a small tree with a gnarled trunk to 15 ft tall. It was among the first of the pincushions to be described by settlers in South Africa. There are two subspecies, with subspecies conocarpodendron having a range restricted to soils weathered from Cape Granite NW Cape Peninsula and subspecies viridum being a more widespread plant with green foliage. The name for the genus comes from the Greek word 'leukos' meaning "white" and and 'sperma' meaning "seed" in reference to the white fleshy skin, called a elaiosome, that covers the seeds. The specific epithet "conocarpodendron" means cone-fruit-tree. We grew this plant from 2004 to 2007 and it is one parent with Leucospermum glabrum the other of the beautiful hybrid 'VeldFire' 

Information displayed on this page about Leucospermum conocarpodendron ssp.viridum is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.