Brunsvigia radulosa spathe bracts

The two opposing spathe bracts around a Brunsvigia radulosa inflorescence are nearly oblong in their lower parts, tapering to elegantly sculptured tips. They act as protective walls around the bunched buds pushing upwards between them. Earlier the pair was attached around their edges, covering all the buds completely. The bend in the back of the bract in view shows how bud vigour straightened the inwardly rounded bract to find space for expansion. The bract surface in picture is pale, soon to lose all its green as it dries. Bract dimensions are from 6 cm to 8 cm long and from 2,5 cm to 5 cm wide. 

The more durable peduncle below is brown and strong. Much juice must still flow up and down its veins to feed everything above during flowering and fruiting from the pantry in the bulb below.

The grass around may be taller, but sun and insects will not miss the floral flourish to follow here in a few days (Duncan, et al, 2016; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).