Pelargonium triste stigma branches twisting

This old Pelargonium triste flower has five long branches on its purple stigma, curling back strongly at their tips. The style has grown well taller than the stamens by now, all of them reduced to antherless filaments.

By this time the action is all in the mature female flower parts, the time of pollen arriving from other flowers on the wings of visiting nectar aficionados.

The curve-back of the stigma is repeated in all petals and sepals, and getting more accentuated. The flower is acting its age. Its mission of looking pretty for pollination is probably accomplished by now, so intentionality shifts. Personality change caused by fertilisation is known more widely.