Brunia laevis bright heads

Ready to erupt in bloom, these white Brunia laevis buds are well ahead of the tiny stem-tip promises around them of what might also arrive later. With at least 80 florets making up one head, the plant is not taking any chances in preparing for the year’s seed set.

The fynbos never carries the full annual quota of possible new plants of any species that is provided for in a season’s floral abundance. Precise provision aiming for zero error amidst no waste is an industrial production engineering objective, not nature’s way of investing in maximal flowering.