Pelargonium alchemilloides green fruit

Pelargonium alchemilloides fruiting has started here, not yet at the mature, opened fruit stage. Few flowers at the nearly straight but sturdy peduncle tip have shed their corollas without evidence of remains. The hairs differ on the plant parts in view. Carpel elongation is about done in some. Widely open when flowering, sepal lobes now gain new importance in closed coverup.

An early stage ripening fruit is elevated above still spreading sepals, while the further developed fruits have their sepals firmly enclosed over the bulges of the swelling ovaries. The exception presented by the upper one still lacks the pronounced elongation of the grouped fruits. Later anthesis (opening of the flower) may be the cause of this, or its progress has been hampered by some developmental problem. Many families harbour a black sheep but the ugly duckling ends up reprieved (Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; iNaturalist).