Albuca canadensis flower half-open, half-nodding

Albuca canadensis flower half-open, half-nodding
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

The half-open outer tepals of an Albuca canadensis flower are white along their margins, green down the centre. The inner tepals that do not spread may be very faintly yellow in hard to define terms, white lateral bands not quite ruled out. An open flower is 2,5 cm to 3 cm in diameter, and 2 cm long.

The floral bracts are open below the pedicels of the top flowers, wrapped around the pedicel bases as they shrivel to papery, in sync with their charges lower down in the raceme (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).

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