Serruria fasciflora new growth

Pale pink Serruria fasciflora buds cohere cylindrically in the young heads. The older, white woolly ones deviate from the precise initial capitulum structure: They consist of tangled perianth segments dropped off from their old styles still standing, spaced erectly. Each flattish topped inflorescence is made up of several stalked flowerheads.

Thread-like leaf segment tips surround them, also upright. Spurts of new growth in picture surpass the older inflorescences in height, made up of new leaves and smaller new flowerheads on pink-purple young peduncles covered in downy white hairs (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; Mustart, et al, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).