Aizoon glinoides flower

The yellow, bisexual flowers of Aizoon glinoides grow solitary from leaf axils on short pedicels. The short, bell-shaped perianth tube ends in five pointed, spreading lobes, on their sepal-like outsides green and hairy, sometimes long-haired, while smooth and yellow on the petal-like insides. A couple of lobes in picture end in green, hairy tips on the inside, resembling the outer surface.

Numerous stamens, yellow in both filaments and anthers, arise from around the greenish, superior and disc-topped ovary. When the stamens drop off, the five horizontally spreading, curving stigma branches become more clearly visible. Cross-pollination works better when the pollinators first find the ripe pollen to transport elsewhere, the stigma unripe, and later the mature stigma ready for pollen from elsewhere, the local stamens spent (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).