Ferraria ferrariola flower

Ferraria ferrariola flowers grow in fan-shaped clusters from stem-tips. They emerge from pairs of leaf-like spathes, large and leathery, including the pedicels. The inner spathe is bigger than the outer one.

The sweetly fragrant flower is pale greenish blue to greenish yellow, mottled by erratic, longitudinal rows of dark dots and short stripes on the bigger, inner three tepals. The outer three are duller, while all six are clawed, the oblong tepals having markedly crinkly margins around their abruptly broadening upper parts.

A flower lasts for two or three days. Flowering happens in winter and early spring (Le Roux, et al, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; iNaturalist).