With a flash

In the case of S&S, the petals are fully formed and rather attractive, whereas it looks like what you've got there are just some extra odd little appendages. Kind of hard to see in the photo, but I do see that kind of thing from time to time, as well as occasional flowers that have parts in multiples of four: four petals and eight stamens. I just go ahead and use them the same as any other, and I've never seen any of my seedlings come out consistantly producing 4-petaled flowers, but some do seem to do it more often than others, so who knows?

One thing I have noticed is that certain cvs. have stamens with long feathery appendages on the tips of anthers. I have noticed this particularly on crosses made with N. Pepper, and often on other hybrids with some form of ampullacea in the mix. Kind of interesting, but not particularly advantageous, in fact it makes them harder to use as pollen parents because the pollen-bearing part of the anther is usually smaller than normal.

Here are today's flowers cropped and some adjusted to help see the form of the petals.

In the morning I will go get pictures of the whole plant. I have one in nearly full sun afternoon-on that has some great color. Now that I think about it I should check its flowers too.

Oh, and that picture of Sugar and Spice is pretty cool. Mine certainly is not that fancy.

And, the nectar...well, a couple of methods were tried, the tongue worked better than you would expect. Sorry, no photo evidence...

This one was burried under an artichoke outside, but when I finally wiggled into that part of the garden and saw that it was getting ready to bloom I pulled it out and potted it up. Definitely flushing a little bit on the fingernails.

I will admit to the occasional nectar tasting on a tall inflorescence (Aechmea, etc.), but having seen the kind of rich bacterial soup that brom cups can harbor, you would never catch me sticking my tongue down in a Neo! Hope your vaccinations are up to date, Andy. ;-)