Lapeirousia pyramidalis subsp. pyramidalis blooming as if tomorrow never comes

    Lapeirousia pyramidalis subsp. pyramidalis blooming as if tomorrow never comes
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    This vigorously flowering Lapeirousia is almost certainly Lapeirousia pyramidalis subsp. pyramidalis. The slightly two-lipped flowers are white but for blue central lines on the lower three shallowly boat-shaped tepals and on the stamens.

    Without pedicels, the flowers grow in a dense spike. More than one spike may be present here.

    The flowers all face up, overlapping as if eager for the camera, or the pollinator (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).

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