Plant Database
Jester Cone Bush
Leucadendron salignum ‘Jester’
Jester Cone Bush is a spectacular, year-round performer that delights the senses with its ever-changing, multicolored foliage and architectural flowers. Its narrow leaves are a vibrant blend of green, creamy-yellow margins, and red edges, intensifying to brilliant shades of red and orange in the fall and winter. During its bloom period, it produces showy, cone-like flower heads surrounded by bright red bracts. This compact, upright shrub provides non-stop visual interest, exceptional drought tolerance, and makes extraordinary long-lasting cut flowers.
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Multicolored Foliage Display: Features leaves with a striking tricolor pattern of green, cream, and red that deepens to fiery red and orange in cool weather, offering year-round appeal.
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Showy Red Cone Flowers: Produces attractive, cone-shaped inflorescences with vivid red bracts in late winter to spring, adding another layer of ornamental interest.
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Compact, Upright Habit: Grows in a neat, dense, and upright form, making it ideal for smaller gardens, mixed borders, or large containers.
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Exceptional Drought Tolerant & Low-Maintenance: Once established, it thrives with minimal water in full sun and well-drained, acidic soil. Requires little to no pruning.
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Superior Cut Foliage & Flowers: Both the colorful foliage and the unique flower cones are highly prized for floral arrangements, lasting for weeks in a vase.