In the center of the flower are white or pale purple sterile stamens known as staminodes; these are flat with pointed or toothed tips and between one half and one centimeter in length.

The flowers are camellia-like, 6-12 cm diameter, with five white petals and numerous white, yellow or purple stamens; they appear in early to mid-summer.

The flowers are 2-2.5 cm broad, with three small sepals and three white petals, and numerous purple stamens.

From the calyx dangle many long, purple stamens tipped with large anthers.

The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

Its tiny pale green flowers form a spike and have purple stamens.

Brian soon noticed that one of the plants was very unusual: it had dark purple stamens and a smell that overpowered the garden.

The flowers are small, greenish-brown with purple stamens, produced in a dense spike 5-15 cm long on top of a stem 13-15 cm tall (rarely to 70 cm tall).

Each flower has a bell-shaped calyx of green or purplish sepals bearing up to 15 long purple stamens tipped with large yellow anthers.

I find that the pollen of the yellow petal-facing stamens produce more than twice as much seed as the pollen of the purple sepal-facing stamens.