Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa

Common name: kreupelboom, maanhaarstompie, tree pagoda, fringed Bottlebrush, fringed cowl pagoda

Family: Proteaceae (Protea)

Distribution: Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Habitat: Fynbos

IUCN Red list: Not evaluated

National red list: Rare

Comments: Mimetes fimbriifolius is a beautiful rounded tree that was once common on Table Mountain, but its numbers have been greatly depleted by harvesting for fire wood since the eighteenth century. It is endemic to the Cape Peninsula, and good populations of this species continue to survive on the southern Peninsula especially at Silvermine and at Cape Point.