Anginon difforme solitary stem-tip

The old Anginon difforme stem-tip is bare below the sparse brush of needle-like leaves, living up to the plant’s common name of common needle-leaf. The leaves vary notably in length, those already yellow or brown in colour positioned lower and likely to drop off first.

The leaves are generally borne erectly; in picture they seem to favour the opposite direction to that chosen by the inclined stem.

A. difforme seems to lead in height in this Kouga veld where renosterbos is common (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Coates Palgrave, 2002; iNaturalist).