Protea dracomontana rounded surfaces, rounded edges

The whitish involucre of a Protea dracomontana flowerhead consists of rows of evenly overlapping, round-tipped and incurving bracts protecting the numerous florets that will each produce one seed. A percentage of them usually succeeds here in the Drakensberg grassland. 

Success is manifested in another flowering shrub appearing in the grass. In a few years it will flower during the first three months of the calendar year. Its seeds will be dispersed by wind nearly a year after flowering.

The cycle of life continues for the species that survive (Rebelo, 1995; Rourke, 1980; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).