Eucomis schijffii flowers

The flowers of Eucomis schijffii grow in a dense raceme on a sturdy, erect stalk mottled maroon. The club-shaped stalk is short and tipped by a coma or crown of triangular bracts.

The foetid flowers are creamy and wine-red to maroon. The filaments are purple, the pale yellow anthers spread from them over the six tepals that are fused at the base. The three-locular, greenish ovary is superior, the filaments and tepals emerging from below it. Flowering happens in summer, peaking in midsummer.

The fruit is a three-angled capsule. The ovoid, dull blackish brown seeds are covered in reticulate, net-like coats (Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).