Aloe humilis rounded bunch of perianths

A claw formed of pendulous Aloe humilis perianths dangle from straight, angled up pedicels. These deep pink pedicels are subtended by small, now papery, triangular bracts. More such bracts, sterile ones lacking flowers, are broad-based a little lower on the peduncle below the inflorescence.

The tiny uppermost buds not yet developed here don’t seem as if they will ever do so. Circumstances relating to weather and the available body juices sometimes cause flowers at raceme tips to lose their chances for shining.

The perianths are both curved and bulging near their tips, apart from smaller basal bulges over the ovaries. There is a short, dark bluish grey section near the tip of each perianth segment, already present during the bud phase. On an older flower present in the centre, the pink colouring has been lost in favour of white and the grey part has become green. Many plants of this species lack these grey patches (Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; Reynolds, 1974; iNaturalist).