Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

These flowers are being pollinated, but through self-pollination! The pollen travels from the stamen down into the flower's own ovary. In the instances at left, the violet flowers gain the ...

IN connection with Prof. Groom's article on the pollination of exotic flowers (November 10, 1904, p. 26) the following notes may be of interest. The inflorescence of Marcgravia Umbellata is ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...

This is where self-pollination takes place for later fruit production. 'The same flower holds all the elements to be pollinated as long as pollen transfers from the stamen (male) and stigma ...

The pollen-producing system of a male flower is known as the stamen. For pollination to occur, the pollen needs to be moved from the stamen of the male flower onto the pistil of the female flower.