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!!!Protea 

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\\Protea, also called sugarbush, is the national flower of South Africa and is both a botanical name and the English common name of a genus of a flowering plant. The plant belongs to a very old family, the Proteaceae family, with evidence of occurrence dating back to the Upper Cretaceous, 75-80 million years ago. 
 
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