Hypocalyptus sophoroides slender shrub flowering

This flowering Hypocalyptus sophoroides plant confirms its status as shrub rather than tree, although valiantly striving to match its protea mate in height. Few-branched, the slender shrub-shape is iffy in substance for presenting its case to be deemed tree.

The dense magenta flower clusters at stem-tips add respectability as a member of the taller, performing echelons of the rocky fynbos and renosterveld countrysides where it lives (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).