Adenium oleifolium twisted stamens

The petal lobes of the Adenium oleifolium flowers in picture are a soft pink, matching the softness of the lobe limbs, too soft for maintaining straight planes to their edges.

Inside the wide corolla tubes concerted twisting of stamens and styles result in white eggbeater-like structures, ending in twined tips. It is the four anthers in each flower that form this cone feature, the filaments of Adenium being very short. The style is fused with the anthers that are arrow-like at the base and ending in thread-like appendages. Only the upper parts of the anthers bear pollen (Van Rooyen and Van Rooyen, 2019; Frandsen, 2017; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).