Euryops tenuissimus flowering stem-tips

Lavish stem-tip flowering of Euryops tenuissimus presents many flowerheads from the upper leaf axils. The smallish flowerheads, 1 cm in diameter or slightly larger, are clustered loosely at stem-tips, on wiry peduncles just above the leaves. The single row of involucral bracts are pointed, acute-angled and brown-tipped.

A flowerhead consists of one whorl of yellow or orange ray florets around a small, dense cluster of yellow disc florets. The ring of ray florets may be somewhat sparse.

Flowering happens from late winter to mid-spring. The photo was taken in September.

The fruits are hairy, becoming sticky or slimy when wet; the seeds small and hairy.

The leaves in picture are shorter and greener than the peduncles; needle-like without the three-lobed splitting of subsp. trifurcatus. This plant is then probably E. tenuissimus subsp. tenuissimus. It was seen at Kagga Kamma (Manning, 2007; iSpot).