Brunia laevis old, dark heads storing seeds

An old Brunia laevis inflorescence may consist of numerous dark heads when flowering has come and gone from the now quite unfloral spheres. Once the bloomtime is past, the heads turn grey to bluish-grey and dry without any of the white floral tissue of before.

Yet, they sit tight and persistent at their old stem-tips during the dry, seedhead phase. New stems in picture already exceed the globose heads. They end white-tipped, the promise of the next, higher bunch of inflorescences likely to dominate the bush in a few months (Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).