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    Albuca canadensis flower half-open, half-nodding

    Albuca canadensis flower half-open, half-nodding
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The half-open outer tepals of the Albuca canadensis flower are white in their margins, green down the centre. The inner tepals that do not open are yellow on the sides of their green keel bands. The open flower is 2,5 cm to 3 cm in diameter and 2 cm long.

    The floral bracts are open by the top flowers, wrapped around the pedicel bases as they shrivel in sync with their charges lower down. The style persists on the green ovary at fruiting (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning,2009; Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; iNaturalist).

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