![]() Tronc vu de près. L'écorce est parsemée de taches d'un gris très clair sur un arrière fond légèrement plus foncé | ![]() Feuilles: face supérieure à gauche et inférieure à droite | ![]() Une inflorescence. La partie supérieure est un dôme fait de bourgeons blancs laineux. La partie inférieure plus large est d'un orange brillant; elle est formée de styles et de limbes orange sur un arrière-fond blanc. |
![]() An elongate upright brown cylinder covered in a regular pattern of small white dots. Embedded in it are about thirty woolly white follicles, each shaped roughly like an American football, but with a short hooked point at one end, and a horizontal seam.|Developing infructescence | ![]() A roughly egg-shaped red-brown woody structure growing at the end of a branch. It is covered in small grey spikes, and has about ten light-grey woody follicles embedded in it. Each follicle has opened unevenly, with one side barely open, and the other open wide. At the wide end of each follicle there is a pointed beak where the split has deviated from the seam.|Mature infructescence after seed release | ![]() A wedge-shaped structure with a small notch along one side. The half nearest the point is thick and rigid, grey with a pattern of black zig-zags on it. The rest of the wedge is red-brown and paper-thin.|Seed |