Adenium oleifolium flower

The Adenium oleifolium petal lobe shape is recognisable in this flower, although not two of the five petals are identical. Delicate and wavy limbs, central folds or channels, apical mucros which are tiny, whitish protrusions at the tips, soft suffusion of pink on white (or white on pink?) and shy curving down of the margins are present in all of them. The wide tube is creamy white on its outside, longitudinally orange striped on the inside.

There is a whitish projectile of intertwined male stamens and female style protruding from the tube base. Another floral object in the background appears like an item from modern warfare. It is quite innocent, however, merely the creamy white, cone-shaped bud of next week’s flower (Van Rooyen and Van Rooyen, 2019; Frandsen, 2017; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).