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Chrysocoma ciliata fruiting

Chrysocoma ciliata fruiting
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  • Chrysocoma
  • Chrysocoma ciliata
  • Chrysocoma ciliata between flowering and fruiting
  • Chrysocoma ciliata branched styles
  • Chrysocoma ciliata flowerheads or capitula
  • Chrysocoma ciliata flowering with intent
  • Chrysocoma ciliata fruiting
  • Chrysocoma ciliata green leaves
  • Chrysocoma ciliata leaves
  • Chrysocoma coma-aurea
  • Chrysocoma coma-aurea leaves
  • Chrysocoma coma-aurea spring flowers
  • Chrysocoma tridentata
  • Chrysocoma tridentata flowerheads

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Chrysocoma ciliata fruiting culminates in the head exploding in long, white bristles of numerous fruit pappuses. The narrowly elliptic fruit below its shuttle-cock of bristles is flattened with a thick rim, surrounded by tiny scales.

The narrow involucral bracts are now dry and brown-tipped, all spreading widely below the hairy affair, not impeding the gradual loosening and wind assisted departures. A few brown-tipped fruits in the centre are lagging behind the outer ones in picture.

The about cylindrical green stem-leaves below are smooth and round-tipped, growing right up the stem to the head (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).

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Thabo Maphisa
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Ivan Latti
 
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