Zygophyllum foetidum flower

The Zygophyllum foetidum flower in picture shows the stamens in a ring, erectly grown from below the superior ovary. The chunky anthers are bilobed, some beige, others yellow once the pollen is ripe. Their apparent differences in height is partly caused by the angle of the photo. Most of the filaments are yellow.

The style of similar thickness and about similar height as the stamens is shorter, as it emerges from the rounded top of the green ovary.

The brown-red markings near the bases of the clawed, flexed back petals are often separated into a pair in Z. foetidum. On flowers of this plant they are joined, darker near the marking perimeters.

The green buds clustered at the top, differ in size and therefore in time to anthesis (opening). The sepals do not part instantly once the yellow petal tips first challenge them at the tip of the bud.