Edmondia sesamoides flowering stems

The Edmondia sesamoides shrublet in picture presents a few slender, sparsely branched, nearly erect erect stems tipped with everlasting type papery flowers. They are seen in spring and early summer. The disc flower is yellow and the enclosing involucre consists of attractive rows of protecting bracts that may be yellow, white or pink.

The stems are white with a fine woolly covering and narrow green leaves that cling to the stem surface.

The genus Edmondia, part of the Asteraceae family, consists of only three species, all endemic to the fynbos ecoregion (Bean and Johns, 2005; Wikipedia).