Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Natural habitat, small colony.
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Young plant natural habitat in the shade
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Sunny location and pre-flowering time
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Leaves are thin and flexible
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Close-up at the cross-cut of the leaves
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Base of hte leaves on the older plant
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Base of the younger leaves darker color
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Characteristical stolons
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Getting ready to bloom - leaves started changing colors
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Ready to bloom, flower spike covered with trichomes( short hairs)
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flower and fading flower bracts( brown)
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Flower has tubular shape with protruding stamens
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Pollen is bright yellow
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Seeds dispersal
Caves Branch Botanical Garden:
Plant finished flowering