Agathosma martiana red floral parts

    Agathosma martiana red floral parts
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    There are three pinkish red floral items in the mainly white Agathosma martiana flowers:

    The biggest ones are the young, unripe anthers angled out in picture, oblong in shape and bilobed with pointed brown tips that curve in.

    The next in size are the five pointed staminode tips, a large gland positioned close to each of the tips.

    The third source of red, smallest in size, is the haphazard grouping of dots at the petal tips.

    The flower base inside the corolla cup is pale green, the colour of the ovary, comprising three or sometimes four carpels (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; JSTOR; iNaturalist; http://www.worldfloraonline.org).

    Total Hits : 257