Moraea schlechteri green fruit

    Moraea schlechteri green fruit
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    Some developing Moraea schlechteri fruits are visible on branch tips around the open flowers in picture. They grow solitary on stalks clasped by remaining, dry spathes, while the used-up parts, the petals, stamens and styles have all dropped off.

    The slightly shiny fruit has an ovoid to inverted pear-shape, slightly indented on top, from where the stamens and style used to protrude (Le Roux, et al, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist).

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