Ehretia amoena flowers

The sweetly scented flowers of Ehretia amoena grow in loose panicles of multiple cymes at the tips of the arching branches. The calyx is bell-shaped, its lobes narrowly triangular, up to 3 mm long and 1 mm wide. The corolla is widely funnel-shaped; the tube is 2 mm to 3 mm long and the corolla lobes up to 10 mm wide. The five lobes curl back strongly over the flower base. 

The five long, erect stamens have white, fleshy filaments that taper to their tips. The pale grey-brown anthers are oblong and small, curving with age. The old flowers in picture have faded to a dull beige. Flowers are short-lived, sometimes lasting for only one day.

Flowering happens from before midspring to summer, sometimes starting before the new leaves (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002).