This evening I will continue my Agapanthus series. In the last post of the series, Agapanthus II, we saw the stalks appearing and now we will see how it looks as the blooms start to open.

I am still learning about Agapanthus (Agapanthus africanus) and found out that the stalks are known as scapes.

The scape is topped by two bracts that are joined together. A bract is a special type of leaf.

In the center of this picture you can see the two bracts separating from each other and you can see the inflorescence which is a group of flowers.

Here you can see the flower buds starting to push out of the opening of another set of bracts. The buds look so delicate.

Here the bloom is starting to unwind from the bracts and you can start to see that it will create a ball shaped cluster of flowers. The flowers are in a psuedo-umbel formation.

This picture was taken only about four hours later than the one above. They open pretty quickly.

Here is the same bloom two days later. You can see that the bloom is rapidly opening and you can start to see the color of the small flowers.

In the next Agapanthus post I will show what the blooms look like when the flowers first start to appear.

I hope you enjoyed learning along with me about Agapanthus.

Steven