Leucadendron galpinii cone beginnings

The cones of Leucadendron galpinii grow at stem tips, male pollen cones and female fruit cones on different plants in the standard Leucadendron manner. The species has no involucral leaves below their cones and no stem-tip leaf discolouring.

Male cones have brown bracts at the base and numerous yellow pollen presenters in open florets, a flat top when last white-woolly perianths are still closed. The female cones are globose to slightly ovoid and hard from post-flowering bract alteration.

Flowering happens around the middle to later part of spring. The photo was taken in Kirstenbosch during July (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).