Texas Gardening: Conjoined flowers?, 1 by maggiemoo

maggiemoo wrote:
Still further down, you can see that the stem is like a data cable - flat and wide. It's as though several stems fused together, and at different heights a portion veers off to form a flower. Some leaves come straight out of the flat side, the leaves that come out of the edges are four leaves stacked together. There are two stems like this coming from what appears to be the same plant. I meant to mention that the flowers seem to have twice the amount of... whatever the word is, the small green stuff behind the petals, it's as if the flowers are two, fused side by side (creating the oblong shape), and all of the under-petal stuff crammed together. Weird! I'm still pretty new to this, so maybe this happens all the time. Has anyone else run across this?