Nemesia fruticans darker flower

    Nemesia fruticans darker flower
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Louis Jordaan

    Nemesia fruticans flower colour may also be deeper like this. The upper lip has four similar, oblong and round-tipped lobes that diverge at their tips. Dark vein lines are nearly parallel, petering out before they reach the upper margins. At the base of the lower lip there is a small, raised yellow part, ringed with white in picture. The large lower lip is pronouncedly notched at its tip and spreads flatly around the bulge area. The flowers growing in racemes are about 1 cm wide.

    The protrusion on the left of the flower looks like a closed calyx from which the corolla has dropped off. A whitish style still remains attached to the enveloped ovary that is becoming a fruit. The smaller green object peeping out is probably a bud (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2009; iNaturalist).

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