Dracophilus dealbatus flowering white

This white-flowering Dracophilus dealbatus has a thick tuft of stamens erect in the flower centre. The stamens have white filaments topped by a conspicuous splash of cohering, yellow anthers, marginally taller than the angled-out petals.

The night photo shows the younger leaf pairs slightly bluish, the “middle-aged” ones nearly white, and the older ones a pale beige grey. The old leaves, delivering a lifelong photosynthesis service to the plant, understandably exhibit the most wear and tear, from life close to the ground. When the sun shines, all these light-coloured leaves reflect sunlight, alleviating heat stress in the plant.

The leaf keels are less distinct than the margins of the inner surface of the leaf pairs. Leaf curvature is clearly an inconsistent feature in D. dealbatus leaves of the same plant (Smith, et al, 1998; iNaturalist; https://www.worldfloraonline.org).