This plant has a five-petaled white flower with numerous pistils, surrounded bij yellow-anthered stamens. The species is dioecious, with stamens and pistils on different plants. Five pistils, also fused below, have 10 stamens arranged around them. The pistils are composed of two to many connate carpels. May include petaloids; prominent display of stamens & pistils. In the center are many long, flat stamens and fewer pistils. A few to many stamens and pistils are at the center. The pistils are usually longer than the stamen. Hermaphrodite consists of both the stamen and the pistils. His plan was to divide the plants by the number of stamens and pistils. Outer tepals are greenish-white, inner tepals are pure white, and pistils are creamy white. He adopted a sexual system of classification using stamens and pistils as important characters. The pistils of a flower are considered to be composed of "carpels". The gynoecium may consist of one or more separate pistils. The female flowers have pink/ red pistils.