Habitual procedure? Step around South African sugarbushes? (7)

I believe the answer is:

proteas

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'south african sugarbushes?' is the definition.
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'habitual procedure? step around' is the wordplay.
'habitual procedure?' becomes 'rote' (I've seen this in another clue).
'step' becomes 'pas' (I've seen this before).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rote' placed into 'pas' is 'PROTEAS'.

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