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Here is the same bud 5 or 6 days after the preceding photo. The floral tube is longer but its length is far from reaching that of the buds of the photo of page 2, probable proof that the blossoming is still far away.

And yet, the stamens and the pistil already start to be visible. Suspense, how will it develop?

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