Ornithoglossum undulatum unripe fruit

    Ornithoglossum undulatum unripe fruit
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The shiny, obovoid Ornithoglossum undulatum fruit capsule is between green and brown with a whitish piece of style at its tip. When ripe, it will dehisce along the central seams of the three locules separated along the conspicuous longitudinal channels.

    Some thread-like petal remains are visible, emerging from around the bases of the two fruits in picture (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Shearing and Van Heerden, 2008; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).

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