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Carl Farmer |
Occasional among wet rocks near where burns enter sea. Very rare in the north of the region. Flower diameter c 2-6 cm ID: Flowers white, 5-petalled, in spikes. Each flower arises singly from the spike on an up-curved stalk with a small bract halfway along. Other features: Leaves in a basal rosette looking rather like that of a Daisy, and also up the stem, shiny, slightly fleshy, with rounded tip and narrowing to a stalk-like base. Small white staminodes between the petal-lobes at top of tube, visible in pic opposite. True stamens with yellow anthers, further down the tube. Automatically self-pollinated within the tube. Fruits globular, enclosed by the calyx whose lobes give a crown-like effect (right-hand edge of bottom pic). |
