Cone bush

Cone bush, conebush, or cone-bush is a common name for various plants, usually dicotyledonous shrubs that bear their flowers and seeds in compact, cone-shaped inflorescences and infructescences. The plants that the name most frequently applies to are members of the Proteaceae, and in particular the Australian genus Isopogon^[1] and the African genus Leucadendron.^[2]

Nepean cone bush (Isopogon dawsonii), infructescence after blooming

Male of Sun Cone Bush (Leucadendron sessile) inflorescences in full bloom