About Serruria bolusii E.Phillips & Hutch.
Serruria bolusii, commonly called the Agulhas spiderhead, is a flowering shrub in the Proteaceae plant family. It is a component of South Africa's fynbos vegetation type, native to the Western Cape province, where it occurs in the Elim hills and Soetanysberg. This upright shrub reaches up to 1.0 metre in height, and blooms between August and December. The adult plant is killed by wildfire, but its seeds survive to germinate after fire. Two months after flowering completes, the fruit detaches from the plant. Serruria bolusii is unisexual, and pollination is carried out by insects. It grows in sandy soil at elevations ranging from 20 to 580 metres. In Afrikaans, this species is called agulhas-spinnekopbos.
