Aloe fouriei inflorescence

    Aloe fouriei inflorescence
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    The flowers of Aloe fouriei grow in unbranched inflorescences standing about 40 cm tall. There are ovate, acutely pointed sterile bracts on the peduncle below the flowers. The dense raceme is a flat-topped head comprising about 20 flowers.

    The flowers soon nod from their orange or pale green pedicels, subtended by bracts of up to 1,6 cm long, covered in many visible nerves. The pedicels lengthen during fruiting, becoming up to 4,5 cm long.

    The flower corollas or perianths become up to 4 cm long. They are wider at the base than the mouth, all the segments free. The outer segments are orange, the inner ones paler, about yellow, all with green tips. The anthers and styles are included in the perianth tubes (Craib, 2005; Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; JSTOR; iNaturalist).

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