Albuca canadensis leaves

The fleshy, blue-green Albuca canadensis leaves taper to acute tips. They are few, markedly unequal in length, curving elegantly like would-be snakes. The leaves become about 60 cm long and 3 cm wide. Channelled along its length, the leaf base is pale here where the sheathing has come apart slightly.

At this stage the inflorescence is no longer than the tallest leaf, its first flowers already open at the base of the raceme (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning,2009; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).