Leucospermum truncatulum beginnings of blooming

These very young buds of Leucospermum truncatulum still show the pink, pointed involucral bracts imbricately arranged in their rows and lavishly covered in soft hairs around the developing flower buds in the white woolly centres of the flowerheads. At this stage of their development the capitula appear more related to protea flowers than when they show their true pincushion colours.

The pale yellow leaf tips, each sporting its single tooth that appears like a horny ridge, are the only leaf parts without hairs. The leaves ascend in an overlapping pattern on the stem, white with hairs (Manning, 2007; Matthews and Carter, 1993; iNaturalist).