All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five.

At times they may supplement their diet with insects, flower parts, or nectar.

They feed in groups on dying flower parts under light webbing.

The most primitive flowers are thought to have had a variable number of flower parts, often separate from (but in contact with) each other.

These are usually concealed by withered flower parts, which persist on the spike for a long time.

They have 5 stamens and the ovary is positioned above the other flower parts.

These plants have the unusual trait of sometimes bearing flower parts in sevens.

Fellini is like a baby tiger lily without the flower part.

The structure had lost its old flower parts.