Lachenalia mutabilis flower colours

Pale blue often predominates towards the top of a Lachenalia mutabilis flower spike. Its many flowers manage to nod although they are (just about) without pedicels. The flowers are attached in the lower part of the perianth base, rather than its centre, facilitating the nodding. The thick central stalk is cylindrical and fleshy, the many flowers here slightly spaced upon it.

The uppermost flowers in the spike are sterile, never developing fully or setting seed. Flower tips show more yellow in the (middle) section of the inflorescence where the flowers are open, while shades of brown take over lower down where flowers already fade and shrink.

Anthers remain out of sight inside the perianth through all the flowering stages; pollinators obliged to enter  for service (Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).