A plant that produces seed with its own pollen. Related Images:
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Recepacle
The base of the flower stalk that holds the sexual organs of a flower. Related Images:
Raceme
A flower stalk on which the florets start blooming from the bottom of the stem and progress toward the top. Related Images:
Pollinator
An agent such as an insect that transfers pollen from a male anther to a female stigma. Related Images:
Pollination
Pollination is the first step in fertilization; the transfer of pollen from anther to a stigma. Related Images:
Pollen tube
A slender tube growing from the pollen grain that carries the male gametes and delivers them to the ovary. Related Images:
Pistil
The seed-bearing or “female” reproductive part of a flower. The pistil is composed of the ovary, the style, and the stigma. The ovary contains the developing seeds, and is connected to the pollen-receiving stigma by the style. Flowers often contain a single pistil, but may contain several. Staminate or “male” flowers contain only stamens and lack pistils entirely.. Related […]
Picotee
A pattern of flower petal coloration in which the edges of the petal are in a color that contrasts with the flower body. Related Images:
Petals
Highly colored portions of the flower, inside the sepals, that protect the inner reproductive structures. Often attract insects with their color or may contain osmophores which are scent structures both of which facilitate pollination. A division or lobe of the corolla or inner perianth of a flower. Related Images:
Perianth
Collectively, sepals and petals form the perianth. The technical term for the envelope that surrounds the reproductive parts of a flower. This enclosure is composed of two concentric units, the outer perianth, or calyx which may be divided into sepals, and the inner perianth, or corolla, which may be divided into petals. Either the calyx or the corolla (or both) may […]