Protea glabra lengthening buds

These Protea glabra buds have allowed their lengthening perianth tips to escape from the involucres. The bracts don’t appear hairy here, their margins having a dry, papery fringe, whitish and consistent in width.

The chestnut sugarbush lives up to its name at this stage of floral development. The chestnut colouring of the perianth tips more or less matches that of the bracts (Rourke, 1980; Manning, 2007; Coates Palgrave, 2002; iNaturalist).