the flowers are usually borne singly in leaf axils on a stalk usually long but are mostly hidden between the leaves with only the tips of the flowers visible. there are 5 overlapping green sepals differing slightly in size and shape from each other but about long. the 5 petals are long and joined at their lower end to form a tube. the tube and the petal lobes on its end are green and yellow, sometimes pale red and the 4 stamens extend well beyond the petal tube. flowers appear mostly between september and november and are followed by fruit which are dry, oval-shaped and about long.