Reproductive Structures

The Blossoms

Blossom buds, showing the little green leaves (sepals) between petal bases:

This is the way blossoming plants look in late April, at the peak of blooming; in the right photo the leaves have been removed:

This is one stalk of female flowers:

Close up the subulate filaments, each containing a tube of the black poison, are seen guarding the ovary (what will become the seed):

Here is a male flower stalk:

And here’s a close up: