Drosanthemum chrysum flowers
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Louis Jordaan
A Drosanthemum chrysum flower grows solitary at a stem-tip. The fleshy calyx has pointed lobes.
The narrowly oblong and acutely pointed petals spread golden yellow in a few rows around the white flower centre. White anthers are present on numerous stamens that spread, apparently not constricted by the presence of staminodes. Greenish stigmas are visible in the centre.
Flowering happens around midspring (Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; http://worldfloraonline.org).