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    Albuca longipes flower facing up

    Albuca longipes flower facing up
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Carolyn Etsebeth

    The Albuca longipes flower has fleshy tepals with hooded tips. The outer three angle out, away from the central group. They are white-tipped beyond the dark green to olive-green bands not covering the hoods.

    The inner three tepals are yellow-tipped, their hoods bigger. These inner ones cohere closely, without touching, around the yellow-green style that ends in a bright yellow stigma. The inner tepals bend forward from the middle where their white flanks are notably wider.

    The stamens are near white, the fleshy filaments slightly translucent and the anthers pale cream (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).

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