Starting off fuzzy and grey, the Leucospermum truncatulum flowerheads of each stem-tip cluster are sequenced according to age, seldom appearing like twins or concurrent, "multiple births".
Pollinators fed nectar and pollen over a longer season have no complaints about this. The courtesy makes more of their days good with food. But instant need gratification among the impatient is notorious for wanting it all now.
The dense style bunches sticking out from the heads in picture tell of changes brought by age. All of the faces fascinate, from the woolly buds and young florets to the viable seed set, dispersal and germination in the renewing fynbos (Marais, (Ed.), 2017; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org).