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Lily_love wrote:
The flowers may have spent and the corola felt off the calyx, you may have some seedpods there that were open pollinated by moths at night. Could they have bloomed, and you didn't notice them?

Here is one of my tiny seedpod that was open pollinated. This brug was out of the way, and I had several other brugs blooming in various sites in the garden. Then one day I noticed this calyx -- viola! It was indeed a seepod inside, I tore off the paper-thin calyx cover to show off the 'okra' like seedpod inside: