I stood for the longest time staring at these. If they were two inches or two feet across they would still seem completely alien. In fact, I’m still not entirely certain they are two separate things. They could be the male and female parts, or one thing at two different stages of existence. It was a puzzle I could not solve. And yet, they exist, or it exists on what looks to be a common plant. All the oddness resides in what I must assume are blooms. But how on earth do they work? How did they get this way? Where do they go from here? The nurseryman must have said, “Just you watch. They’re not what you think.”