Euryops tagetoides yellow flowerhead

The Euryops tagetoides flowerhead, commonly orange can also be yellow, the disc here slightly darker than the rays.

The around twenty rays overlap unevenly, slightly more in picture than needed for one full, even ring around the disc. Several fine surface channels run from base to tip on the nearly oblong to narrowly elliptic ray blades. The five tiny lobes of each open disc floret appear to be about erect.

The still to open buds bulge larger shortly before anthesis (opening), not all of them confined quite to the disc centre in this case. Flowering happens from before midwinter to early spring.

The leaves on this young plant appear whiter when they start off, losing their white hairs with age (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://www.worldfloraonline.org).