Crassula nemorosa nodding globules

    Crassula nemorosa nodding globules
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Louis Jordaan

    Each flower of Crassula nemorosa bears five acutely pointed, silvery to pink petals. In picture they curve out in the gaps between the fleshy sepals that currently curve in in globular fashion. The petals are longer than the sepals, from 2 mm to 3,5 mm long.

    When the nodding flowers are properly open and the petals form cup-shapes, the five carpels of each ovary and the five stamens around them are also visible in the flower centre.

    All of this is minute and easily missed, but not by the local spider (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Smith, et al, 2017; iNaturalist).

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