Aristea bakeri with Ixia odorata var. hesperanthoides flowering in summer in recently burnt veld in the vlei south-east of the Franschhoek Pass in the Boland mountains, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Aristea bakeri flowering in summer in fynbos veld burnt the previous summer on the Cape Peninsula mountains, South Africa. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Post-fire spring flowering of orange Pillansia templemanii, white Lanaria lanata and blue Aristea confusa amongst the burnt skeletons of leucadendrons and other reseeding shrubs in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]