Agapanthus campanulatus blue umbels

The rod-like peduncles of the Agapanthus campanulatus umbels of blue flowers in picture are dark coloured with unevenly pale patches and smooth surfaces.

The flowers are pedicelled of similar length, spreading around the top of the peduncle in a hemisphere of floral invitation to potential pollinators with a predilection for blue. The still closed buds are narrowly obovate, if eggs could ever be that narrowly elongated (Manning, 2009; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).