Gladiolus varius flowers

The large, pink Gladiolus varius flower has an obliquely funnel-shaped perianth tube of up to 5 cm long. The dorsal tepal is often largest, forming a hood over the stamens and the three-branched style tip. The lower three tepals may have dark purple median streaks and are sometimes paler in their lower halves. Not much of that is in evidence in the photo.

The anthers are about 8 mm long. The inferior ovary is obovoid, the style branches about 6 mm long (Goldblatt and Manning, 1998; iNaturalist; JSTOR).