Brunsvigia radulosa flowering in the grass

Brunsvigia radulosa inflorescences stand scattered in open grassland when it’s their season in many parts of South Africa. Here they grow near the Drakensberg in KwaZulu-Natal.

The sturdy, green peduncles hold their floral charges high enough for meeting pollinators without impediments. The foreground plant has its lower ring of flowers open already, the rest advancing steadily.

The flow of juices from the bulb, routed via peduncle veins to wherever the greatest developmental need among the flowers may be at any moment, is regulated in the smoothest of project management performances imaginable (Duncan, et al, 2016; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).