Adenium multiflorum flowers

The sweetly scented flowers of Adenium multiflorum grow in clusters at branch tips. The dense cluster in picture must have very short or no stalks. Right at the back of every flower's corolla, short, pointed calyx lobes are visible around the flower base. Just before the flowers open, the petal lobes are furled more narrowly than the cylindrical tube lower down, housing stamens and style.

The flowers have funnel-shaped to nearly cylindrical corolla tubes, from 4 cm to 5,5 cm long. They are velvety on the inside and in picture somewhat velvety on the outside too. In the photo the finely hairy and longitudinally lined outer corolla surfaces are pale pink. The crinkly or crisped margins of the spreading, acutely pointed petal lobes are dark pink or crimson around the white petal lobe centres. The tubes are nearly white inside with dark red lines in the case of the plant in picture, stopping in or near the mouth. A pure white flowering form is sometimes seen. 

Brush-like, pale brown stamens are straight and close together, exserted above the flower centre (Manning, 2009; Germishuizen and Clarke, 2003; Codd, 1951; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).