Gunnera perpensa many spikes

This Gunnera perpensa plant or stand of plants, the creeping rhizome may have surfaced in several places, produced leaves so lavishly that it does not matter much how many or few plants there are. All is going well with production of flowers and maybe fruits.

Some green inflorescences are straightening to join the mature ones, tall over the leaves. The flowers are still to become pink, red or brown, while the pale brown spikes bent double appear to be over the hill, hiding their tips where the male florets have probably lost their pollen by now. The fruits that should develop from the female flowers lower down on the spikes are small drupes, fleshy or leathery, round or angular (Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).