Eucomis schijffii no place to hide

Hiding in a rocky corner did not safeguard this Eucomis schijffii from leaf damage. But rocks do make it harder for bulbs to be dug up and eaten. Some diggers have more skill, some bulbs find safer sojourn. No surviving species is allowed to win all its battles, and none can afford to lose all of them while remaining extant. All must eat and be eaten in the wide sharing of life on earth.

It is never fair! The stronger and the shrewder participants have bigger and better shares, even lion’s shares. Most winners in nature don’t resemble lions in the least.

Apart from where humanity is concerned, the eat and be eaten thing is also never unfair. The fairness-unfairness continuum does not occur in nature. It is a feature of the overgrown cultural niche occupied by people, as ethics are manufactured in the human brain. Nature allows but doesn't care about any idiosyncratic specific niches. They last as long as the species that created them. And people aren't very good at managing their fairness notion even among themselves, or particularly not among themselves.

Appearances can be deceiving: The crown of this E. schijffii is a pale yellow green, with purple margins only, quite unlike many of its mates. Still, they are mates within the same species. Decide whether pineapple comes into the reckoning here at all.