Mimetes chrysanthus woolly beginnings

Involucres around early bud clusters are clear to see at Mimetes chrysanthus stem-tips. The flowerheads grow from leaf axils. The buds in picture are so densely grouped that they have overpowered the leaves.

There are several rows of pale grey-blue, ovate involucral bracts around each barrel-shaped head of floret buds, at this stage still white-woolly on top. The inner, longer involucral bracts have yellowish, tooth-like tips.

Apart from much insect damage to the leaves in picture, there are also leaf-shape differences, even the occasional one that lacks the brown tooth at the leaf-tip (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).