A skeleton of a burnt female Leucadendron laureolum bush with open cones in a stand of Elegia filacea flowering in summer with Everlastings, Syncarpha vestita, beyond on the Smitswinkelvlakte on the southern Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Erica abietina ssp. atrorosea flowering with the restio, Elegia filacea, and Leucadendron laureolum shrubs in fynbos, on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Male and female plants of Elegia filacea, flowering on Napier mountain, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]