Asclepias praemorsa complex flowers

Floral complexity in Asclepias praemorsa can be orchid-like, another word for bewildering to laymen. The corolla is the simple part: Five lobes flaring backwards laterally start off closed, green and fist-like. The lobes do part as the flower opens, pulling backward and revealing without fanfare a corona and eventually a central column that comprises all the male and female parts required to make a bisexual flower do what it has to. 

Inspecting floral details inside many corollas teach in instalments about the diverse pollination solutions nature has contrived over more than 100 million years. There are so many ingenious ways different flowers allow ripe pollen to reach appropriate stigmas and from there to ovules in ovaries, resulting in the universal floral goal of seed production (Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist).