Leucospermum cordifolium flowering in early summer east of Stanford on the Agulhas Plain, Western Cape, South Africa. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Pugnacious ants (Anoplolepis steingroeveri) collecting seed of Leucospermum cordifolium to take back to their underground nest in recently bunt fynbos veld, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

A Halictid bee collecting pollen in late spring from a flowerhead of Leucospermum corfdifolium cultivated at Kirstenbosch, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer) on a Leucospermum cordifolium, Fernkloof Nature Reserve, Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Duncan Robertson ©]

A Cape grassbird (Sphenoeacus afer) perched on a Leucospermum cordifolium flowerhead at Kirstenbosch on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

A male Southern double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus) pollinating a Leucospermum cordifolium flowerhead while probing for nectar in spring in the Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, Cape Town. South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]