Posted on 11/26/2023 1:17:56 PM PST by DallasBiff
pollination, transfer of pollen grains from the stamens, the flower parts that produce them, to the ovule-bearing organs or to the ovules (seed precursors) themselves. In plants such as conifers and cycads, in which the ovules are exposed, the pollen is simply caught in a drop of fluid secreted by the ovule. In flowering plants, however, the ovules are contained within a hollow organ called the pistil, and the pollen is deposited on the pistil’s receptive surface, the stigma. There the pollen germinates and gives rise to a pollen tube, which grows down through the pistil toward one of the ovules in its base. In an act of double fertilization, one of the two sperm cells within the pollen tube fuses with the egg cell of the ovule, making possible the development of an embryo, and the other cell combines with the two subsidiary sexual nuclei of the ovule, which initiates formation of a reserve food tissue, the endosperm. The growing ovule then transforms itself into a seed
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But what if the pistol claims to be a stamen?
And what if the anti-gun crowd takes away all the pistols?
Check out “alternation of generations.”
You can then pry the pistol (or pistil) from my cold, dead flower. I hate f##_&$ Otto Korrekt.
“The stigma is the sticky knob at the top of the pistil.” (From another site).
Is there a stigma to being called a stigma?
“Look At The Flowers”
Carol
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