Leucadendron salignum, its work done for the season

These male Leucadendron salignum flowerheads are dark and dried out, spent in the function of pollinating the female flowers that grew in cones on separate bushes, not too far away for the pollinators. This flowerhead becomes 1 cm to 1,4 cm in diameter.

The involucral leaves cupping the flowerheads on this specimen are short, yellow and narrowly pointed, in contrast to the long green leaves lower down on the stems (Manning, 2007; iSpot).