Watsonia tabularis open capsules

The trumpet-shaped flowers of Watsonia tabularis grow in two ranks in a many-flowered spike. The down-curved flowers are mostly salmon-pink to orange-pink. The six tepal tips flare open from the mouth, the tube behind about 4,5 cm long.

Flowering happens late in spring and early in summer. The photo was taken in June when the oblong fruit capsules had released their seeds. Some of the gaping, three-segmented husks still remain, brown, woody and dry; pale on the inside (Clarke and Mackenzie, 2007; Manning, 2007; Kidd, 1983; iNaturalist).