Aspidistra flowers

Not often seen, the flowers of the aspidistra come up from underground. On one of my gigantic and ancient plants, the flowers seem to be produced if the plant is kept very dry during the winter.

It was formerly thought that slugs and snails pollinated them, but that is not true. Ground dwelling insects and creatures such as woodlice are probably the guys that pollinate.

New buds can be seen emerging fom the soil at the bottom right.

 

Not sure if you saw this HB



they still havn't got to the surface yet.