Greetings, Dee, from a gardener in central Oklahoma. Was admiring your pics. Your starfish plant is one of the stapelias, often called a carrion plant from the odor of the bloom. They come from a land that has no bees or butterflys to polinate, they attract green bottle flies looking for something dead to lay eggs on. A beautiful plant. I had one by my driveway that had 11 blooms at once, you could sure find it as you stepped out of the car.