Edmondia pinifolia bracts

The involucral bracts on an Edmondia pinifolia flowerhead, here seen in profile, show their regular overlapping pattern, neatly imbricate.

The brown colour of the short bracts on the stems persists on the pointed tips of the lower part of the involucre, gradually decreasing to being entirely pink on the uppermost ones. These brown bract tips have dark brown vertical lines upon them, not seen in the upper involucral bracts.

When seen from above, the bracts inside the flowerhead in the rows closest to the disc florets decrease in size like the outer ones here; the longest involucral bracts being in the middle rows (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).