Drosanthemum floribundum flowers and fruits

    Drosanthemum floribundum flowers and fruits
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The stalked flowers of Drosanthemum floribundum grow solitary. Five or six leaf-like calyx lobes enclose the bud.

    The round-tipped petals spread, usually by midday in one or two whorls. The flower colour is purple, usually in darker shades. In the absence of staminodes the white-anthered stamens in the flower centre do not cohere in a cone, the flowers self-fertile. Abundant spring flowering may last into early summer.

    The light-coloured fruit capsules have five or six locules. There are valve wings and expanding keels but no closing bodies (Smith, et al, 2017; Smith, et al, 1998; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; iNaturalist).

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