Agathosma riversdalensis shiny brown fruit

These maroon-brown Agathosma riversdalensis fruits are still very glossy before they dry.

Some antenna-like drying floral parts persist among the fruits and from their tips. The multitude of short ones are styles on the individual carpels where seeds are forming in the female parts. The long ones are old staminodes, the sterile male floral parts.

A few fruit tips are now green. The smallest, yellow fruit that is developing last in the centre has a ring of larger, dark ones around it (Manning, 2007; Mustart, et al, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).