Brunsvigia orientalis when buds rule

These Brunsvigia orientalis buds collectively resemble a successful, multiple birth of some things red in the animal kingdom. This notion is negated by the thick cylindrical pedicels attaching them to the shared base from which their growth is fed. The pedicels change colour and curve as they elongate.

The tepals are still firmly closed, their pouting tips seemingly communicating arrogance about their putative beauty, ironically matched by all their counterparts on adjacent pedicels.

To the right, there is a bract, a part of another colour. It previously formed part of the covering that protected these buds when they were much smaller, less colourful and less precocious.