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Flowers

Of or realting to the reproductive part of a flowering plant. The flower facilitates the unification of sperm and eggs. Also, flowers are used by humans as decoration, romance, ritual, religion, medicine, and food source.

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butterfly ginger lily

Plants; Flowers

Butterfly ginger lily is beautiful and fragrant flower native to East India. It is a robust, attractive plant that will reach 6 feet in containers. Leaves are lance-shaped and sharp-pointed, 8-24 in ...

style

Plants; Flowers

The style in a flower is a pillar-like stalk through which pollen tubes grow to reach the ovary. Styles are always tube-like — either long or short. The style can be open (containing few or no cells ...

stigma

Plants; Flowers

Stigma is usually found at the tip of the style, the portion of the carpel that receives pollen (male gametophytes). It is commonly sticky or feathery to capture pollen.

stamen

Plants; Flowers

Stamens consist of two parts: a stalk called a filament, topped by an anther where pollen is produced by meiosis and eventually dispersed. The "male" part of the flower.

anther

Plants; Flowers

Anther (from Ancient Greek anthera, feminine of antheros "flowery," from anthos "flower"), contains microsporangia. Anthers are most commonly two-lobed and are attached to the filament either at the ...

filament

Plants; Flowers

Filament is the stalk of the anther. The filaments may be fused and the anthers free, or the filaments free and the anthers fused. Rather than including two locules, one of the locules may fail to ...

pollen

Plants; Flowers

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during ...

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