Conical Pagoda

Mimetes capitulatus is an evergreen, upright, rounded shrub of about 2 m (7 ft) high, that has been assigned to the Proteaceae family. It has geyish green, lance- to egg-shaped leaves ending in a thickened tip. The flower heads and subtending leaves form a cylindric inflorescence, topped by ordinary, more or less upright leaves. Each primarily orange flowerhead contains 10–13 flowers with conspicuously scarlet styles, yellow under the narrow hourglass-like pollen presenter at its tip. Flowers...