Albuca canadensis tepal tips

Something of the hinged flaps present at the tips of the inner three tepals of the Albuca canadensis flower is visible here. There are two white bulges at the upper corners of each inner tepal tip, as well as a perceptible incurving hook and bulge at the tip of a slightly spread outer tepal in view.

The tepals each has a broad green band down its keel. The inner three remain together in the centre, while the outer three spread, albeit without conviction. The acutely pointed bract below each pedicel has a green band and white margins in its lower, broad part as well.

The buds are erect, while the open flowers nod half-heartedly. The oldest ones below are erect again, shrivelled and narrow in the part above their ovaries (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning,2009; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).