The ripening Phylica lachneaeoides fruit is still partly green, sparsely covered in soft, short hairs. The spherical capsule has a dark mark where the style was attached on top.

A white-velvety old flower on the side may have failed to develop or is busy doing so. The up-curved, pointed leaves surrounding the fruit reach up to more than halfway its height, but no calyx is visible, other than at the end of the tubular flower not becoming a fruit yet (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).