Albuca virens subsp. virens raceme

Albuca virens subsp. virens produces about five linear, narrow, erect, glaucous (blue-green or blue-grey) and hairless leaves every season. The leaves have upturned margins that form a channel and at the base combine into a sheath around the sturdy flower-stalk.

This stalk exceeds the leaves in length, terminating in a dense raceme of flowers, as the one in picture.

Individual flowers are produced on pedicels of about 7 mm. The tepals are white and pale yellow, each with a broad green or brown longitudinal central band. The greenish oblong anthers point upwards at the end of the filaments. Long, thin, papery bracts are seen among the closed and open flowers. The green bands on the inside of the open tepals are similar to those on the outer surfaces of the still closed buds.

One beige-brown fruit capsule can be seen in the photo, busy forming below the few open flowers and the closed buds awaiting their turn higher up in dense formation. The black seeds are 3 mm long (Van Wyk and Malan, 1997; Lowrey and Wright, 1987; iNaturalist).