Osteospermum moniliferum fruit rings

The fruits of Osteospermum moniliferum are fleshy, globose drupes growing from the marginal, female, ray florets and forming a ring as seen here. The tiny disc florets are male.

These fruit rings gave the plant its specific name of moniliferum, derived from the Latin words monile meaning necklace or collar and fero meaning to bear, referring to the way the fruits are arranged. 

Inside the fleshy coverings serving as incentive to fruit consumers, the dispersers, the fruits have hard inner walls around the single seeds.

O. moniliferum fruit differ considerably from most other Osteospermum species but are similar to those of O. incanum (Andrew, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org).