Leucospermum royenifolium flowerhead

The stem-tip flowerheads of Leucospermum royenifolium are cream when opening, the perianth sections curling back strongly when the styles are freed. The rounded, fragrant heads become pink with age, the styles darker coloured than the shrivelled perianth sections around their bases. A flowerhead is from 1 cm to 2 cm in diameter.

The now purply styles are losing straightness as they age, the stigmas yellow. The styles were greenish cream when young, the pollen presenters cylindrical and the yellow stigmas rounded. The style upper parts that started off as pollen presenters have at their tips the by now spent stigmas. The styles are up to 16 mm long. Pollen has already been transported down to the ovaries where seeds are starting to grow. 

Flowering happens from before midwinter to early summer (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).