Trichodiadema setuliferum flower
Author: Ivan Lätti
Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch
The flower of Trichodiadema setuliferum has an ample whorl of purplish pink, narrow, oblong petals with rounded tips. The flower is small, the petals angled upwards in a shallow bowl-shape.
The cone of white stamens in the centre contains a number of shorter stigmas. The nectar glands are positioned at the base of the cone.
Flowering time is late winter to summer (Smith, et al, 1998).
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