Osteospermum oppositifolium flowerhead nearly there

The young Osteospermum oppositifolium flowerhead has swollen to a stage in which the involucre has made way for its ray florets to lift from the dark disk. They are already separated but not yet unfurled or spreading, thin and hollow threads standing as if undecidedly around the black disc in the centre.

The pointed green bract tips are curling away from the head below the pale-yellow rays. The flowerhead is solitary at its stem-tip. Decussate leaf-pairs are spaced on the stem, abruptly thinner close to the head (Le Roux, et al, 2005).