All I have to show is a half-starved Chocolate Lily.
It's very dry. Even the the wet bits are dry.

Governments function?

Some of them will die of old age before they've finished reading the full charge sheet

Damage caused during developmental stage when the fast-growing flower spike is forced to grow past an obstruction, usually a stick shed from the eucalyptus overstory. As is pushes past the stick it grazes one side creating less flexible scar tissue that becomes the inside of the curve

I'd be inclined to skip both and listen to other Dave Warner ( From The Suburbs ) "It's a Mug's Game"🎶

🙏 Butcher Bird by babbling brook symphony

I played with one inspired by a specimen seen on the set of "The Longest day in Chang'an" and blooming season never fails to wow