Albuca canadensis leaves

The fleshy, blue-green Albuca canadensis leaves taper to acute tips, and are channelled longitudinally. They are few, normally four to six of them, markedly unequal in length, and curving elegantly like would-be snakes. The leaf bases are pale here where the sheathing has come apart slightly, similar to tans after changing bathing suits. The leaves become about 60 cm long and 3 cm wide. 

At this stage the inflorescence is no longer than the tallest leaf, its first flowers already open, and so much freer than the buds at the top of the raceme (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).