Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Articles
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Glossary
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Subject Index
Home Home » TYPES » Bulbs » Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis fruiting
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 12,068
Total number of hits on all images: 7,363,069

Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis fruiting

Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis fruiting
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 29 of 227  
Next Next
Image 31 of 227  
  • Bobartia fasciculata
  • Bobartia gladiata subsp. gladiata
  • Bobartia gladiata subsp. gladiata buds
  • Bobartia gladiata subsp. gladiata flower
  • Bobartia gladiata subsp. gladiata flower from the back
  • Bobartia gladiata subsp. gladiata green leaves
  • Bobartia gladiata subsp. gladiata greyish leaves
  • Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis
  • Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis fruiting
  • Boophone disticha
  • Boophone disticha heads that wouldn't roll
  • Boophone disticha in-curving leaves
  • Boophone disticha leaf and flower beginnings
  • Boophone disticha old fruit head
  • Boophone disticha out-curving leaves
  • Boophone disticha: En Garde!
  • Chasmanthe aethiopica fruit display

Image information

Description

Bobartia orientalis subsp. orientalis flowers grow in a compact cluster of zigzagging cymes called rhipidia. The inflorescence is positioned at the tip of a long stem looking much like a leaf. Two long spathes subtend the inflorescence, thinly furled once dry and protruding well beyond the flowers or fruits.

After flowering the two green spathes subtending each flower, the inner one longer, form a narrow cone. The fruit appears at its tip if pollination and related development succeeded.

In picture, the few developed fruit among many spike-like, narrow green cones have ripened and dehisced already, their seeds dispersed. The pedicel of the woody fruit is by this time quite long, the segments of the husk gaping, grey outside and brown within.

Earlier, its body was green when the seeds formed in the three locules of the inferior ovary, positioned below petals and anthers in the yellow flower (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; Gledhill, 1981; iNaturalist).

Hits
48
Photographer
Thabo Maphisa
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery