Often seen in yellow or orange shades, marigolds ( Tagetes) are showy flowers that make incredible companion plants. "The ...

Flowers have both male and female reproductive parts. When these occur in ... in plants occurs when the pollen from a stamen is transferred to a pistil, where it may fertilize the eggs stored ...

The stigma is on the top of the pistil. When it is receptive to pollen, the stigma is sticky. The other filaments in the center of the flower are the male parts, collectively termed the stamen.

Minus bad pickup lines, one-night stands, and other social complexities, plants actually do have sex. When people pluck the sweet-smelling blooms of a plant, they’re actually dismembering the ...

These are the oval shaped parts forming the top of the stamen. When the anthers ... of the female part of the flower, called the stigma, which is part of the pistil, the pollen has to germinate ...

In our Mystery Plant (Yellow poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera) the whole length of the individual stamen is seemingly ... of a number of pistils (the “female” parts of the flower), each ...

produce pollen that fertilises female parts, known as pistils, to make seeds. In self-pollinating flowers, the stamen sheds pollen directly onto the pistil. Cross-pollination, however, requires ...

Self-pollinating plants have male and female parts, allowing the pollen to travel from the anther in the stamen to the stigma in the pistil ... the self-pollinating flowers gardening experts ...