| 21. | The leaves are very thin and pointed, somewhat needlelike, and up to 3 or 4 centimeters long.
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| 22. | The hairy, oppositely arranged leaves are each divided into very narrow needlelike lobes up to a centimeter long.
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| 23. | Each flower has a calyx of sepals with long, needlelike lobes that may harden into bristles with age.
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| 24. | Spider mites puncture plant parts, sucking juices out and leaving a mottled or stippled look to the needlelike foliage.
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| 25. | The daintier Protea nana, or mountain rose, has small pendulous, cup-shaped reddish flowers with needlelike leaves.
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| 26. | Foliage of the lower-growing varieties, which obtain heights of mere inches, is needlelike or cylindrical in shape.
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| 27. | The branches are covered with small green needlelike leaves each just a few millimeters long and under half a millimeter wide.
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| 28. | Radial spines are shorter and needlelike, up to 0.8 inch long, white and arranged in a neat rosette.
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| 29. | The green, three-veined leaves are needlelike or flattened, no more than a centimeter long and a millimeter wide.
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| 30. | The green or purplish, hairless, needlelike leaves are no more than a centimeter long and barely over a millimeter wide.
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