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 ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

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.

As they dig for the sweet nectar all the pollen rubs off on their bodies from the stamen ... rubs off onto the stigma of the new flower. This is called pollination. When the pollen lands on ...

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...

CHILD: And they smell nice. NAOMI: In the spring and summer many plants grow flowers, covering the spaces around us in beautiful colour. But flowers have a very important job. They help plants ...

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 ...