Albuca suaveolens in the Biedouw Valley

The Albuca suaveolens leaves in picture curve back near their tips, reaching about as high as the lowest flowers in the inflorescence.

Some lower flowers don’t quite manage lifting their faces into horizontal positions (any longer). Buds at the top of the raceme may point up before assuming their typical outwards looking open flower stance. There are already some green fruits formed at the lower end of the raceme, angled up.

When the flowers of A. concordiana can’t be differentiated easily from those of A. suaveolens, the grey, spiralling leaves will serve to separate them (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).