Crassula fascicularis floral features

    Crassula fascicularis floral features
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    The long-tubed flowers of Crassula fascicularis radiate from their stem-tip base into about a hemisphere of small, recurving corollas. Not all the recurving has happened yet, some younger flowers still showing their five pointed petal tips unabashed in star-shape. Some also have tinges of pink on outer corolla parts. 

    In older flowers the anthers of stamens in the tube are visible near the corolla mouths, but not exserted. In younger flowers the filaments haven't reached full length yet, nothing to be seen.

    Below the paraded floral bits some pink of the yet to open buds shows on the outsides surfaces of the petals. Deeper than that some straight sepal lobes, pointed and red-tipped, lie upon the corolla tubes. The sepals cover the home bases where ovules in ovaries await the arrival of pollen grains for growing fruits and seeds to ensure another generation of the species (Smith, et al, 2017; Manning 2009; iNaturalist).

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