Plants in the genus Salvia, such as Sage (Salvia officinalis) have flowers with an unusual structure designed to facilitate pollination. Instead of four stamens, Salvia flowers have two that are attached. One is also longer than the other and when a pollinator such as a bee probes a male flower for nectar, it pushes down on the anther, which acts like a lever, pulling the stamens up for the pollinator to access. When the pollinator leaves, the ‘lever’ closes and the stamens come down to deposit pollen on its body. When the pollinator moves to a female flower, that pollen can then be picked up by that flower’s stigma, which is bent downwards to receive it.