This exotic member of the Protea family is a large, evergreen tree native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. It is grown primarily for its use as a specimen tree and, more particularly, for its brilliant flowers, which are borne in midsummer. These "flowers" are, in fact, inflorescences where each flower stalk grows from the same, central point, creating a circular arrangement of flowers. This characteristic has given rise to the descriptive common names used for the tree. In South Africa S. vinuatus is widely planted in gardens in both coastal and inland areas where only mild frost occurs. This specimen was planted about 1965.