Leafless at bloom-time here, the Bulbine cepacea raceme is fairly dense with flowers.

A narrow band of open yellow flowers is seen above fruit-forming old flowers and below ellipsoid buds coloured yellow with green stripes and reddish tips. Pedicels are shorter on the youngest buds near the top where they still ascend.

B. cepacea was previously classified under Anthericum as well as Ornithogalum at different times (Manning, 2007; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984).