Conesticks (bushfire recovery)

Petrophile canescens, commonly known as "conesticks", is a common shrub of the family Proteaceae, found in eastern Australia. It can grow to a height of 4-6 ft. (1.2-1.8 m). The nut, which looks like a small pine cone, is about 2 cm long, shorter than the bract with hairs often longer than the bract. This spotting shows recovery since the February 2019 bushfires that burnt through much of this region. Drought also persisted for the balance of 2019 and recovery has been very slow, although these plants are healthy, having remained dormant for much of that time. It's only in the last couple of months that decent rainfall has been received in this region, and the fresh regrowth that you see in these photos is entirely due to that. Follow-up rain has been intermittent since then.