Geissorhiza aspera flowers

These open blue, sometimes blue-violet flowers of Geissorhiza aspera show their three-branched stigmas. The styles are tall among the somewhat mangled looking anthers on the stamens that are shorter. One stamen is shorter than the other two.

White lines can be seen down the centres of the spreading tepals. The tepal shape is elliptic with an acute tip; the tepals being joined at the base in the short corolla tube. A small white patch is visible in the flower centre. This patch may also be dark.

G. aspera flowers at the end of winter and early spring (Manning, 2007; iSpot; www.plantzafrica.com).