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Leucospermum 'Tango' - A dense attractive upright shrub that grows to 6 to 8 feet tall by 4 to 6 feet wide with narrow long green leaves and brilliant bright orange flowers in late spring and early summer. The flowers are long stems and composed of orange stamens and red perianth ribbons.
Plant out in the open in full sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally to infrequently. Hardy to around 24° F. This is a very attractive, cold hardy and drought tolerant shrub for the garden where it can be used as a screening or hedge plant or even in a large container and is excellent for cut flower use and for attracting nectar feeding birds into the garden.
Leucospermum 'Tango' is a hybrid between Leucospermum glabrum and Leucospermum linare. Though it is variously listed in online sources as L. glabrum x L. linare, indicating that L glabrum is the seed parent, or the reverse with L. linare as the seed parent, it is in fact the former. In the Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia, Volume 3 by Roger Spencer, this plant is listed as a cross between Leucospermum glabrum 'Helderfontein' and Leucospermum linare 'Diadem'. It originated at the Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Institute in South Africa in 1979 and was selected in 1984 and entered into cultivation in 1993. We received this plant from Dennis Perry of Protea USA. Image on this page from Wikimedia and taken by user Flying Freddy.
This information about Leucospermum 'Tango' displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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