Euclea undulata female flowers

The female Euclea undulata bush bears these nearly white flowers in small unbranched sprays. They grow singly from leaf axils, the inflorescences about 2 cm long.

The flowers are hairless, but bear stalked, rust-coloured glands. The calyx of pointed green sepals does not enlarge during fruiting but persists. The superior ovary on a fleshy disc is hairless but has whitish, scale-like glands.

The flowers are sweetly fragrant.

Flowering happens from before midspring to after midsummer, in some areas later (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist).