Aspalathus spinosa subsp. spinosa fruit

The fruit pod of Aspalathus spinosa subsp. spinosa bulges proudly now, after increasing its modest ovary size, initially out of sight when concealed by the corolla.

Corollas become irrelevant first, while the pointed calyx lobes are brown but still spreading over the back of the fruit. The pedicel thickens during fruiting and curves more pronouncedly from what it was at bloomtime.

At the other end of the fruit pod the dry, curving style persists. The pod is quite hairy to woolly, still green at the time of the photo. Fruit pods are from 7 mm to 10 mm long and up to 4 mm wide.

There seems to be an anther projecting from the curved brown keel of the withering flower in the upper left (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Pooley, 1998; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://www.worldfloraonline.org).