Rhigozum zambesiacum flowering after fire

Fire features big-time in the life of plants and animals. The early flowering of this Lowveld Rhigozum zambesiacum bush announces the good news of a complete recovery or lucky escape.

Yesterday’s sorrows forgotten, the shop is open for pollinator hunger to be satisfied daily (and possibly nightly) here in the temporary absence of other dietary options nearby. Nature’s time share arrangements currently favour this plant exclusively for a prodigious pollination innings.

Early rain would change that swiftly, as many ashes-fertilised growth beginnings from the bare earth would soon offer other options. This would light up insect and bird eyes, causing earlier loyalties to become shaky. Until then, if the rain ever comes, this “hard times soup kitchen for all comers" is announced for now in vivid yellow signposts that won’t be missed (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; Pooley, 1993).