Plant parts

Why are petals an important part of a flower.

Petals attract insects and bees to pollinate the flower.

Female part

Pistil. The pistil includes the stigma, style and ovary. The seed producer. The pistil female consists of three parts; The stigma, The style, and the ovary.

Pollination

Pollination occurs when pollen is transferred from the anthers to the female organs by wind or by animals. If the female stigma is a receptive to a pollen grain, the pollen produces a pollen tube, where grows through the female tissue to the ovary, where fertilization takes place.

Male part

Stamen. Stamens are slender structures that hold the pollen. The stamen consists of two parts; The anther. The filament. The stamen; The pollen producer. Stamens are slender structures that hold the pollen. the stamen consists of two parts; The anther and the filament.

Anther

The anther is a small case where the pollen grains form. Pollen- male sex cells of the plant.

Petals

Attractive leaves that are often colorful and sweetly scented. Petals attract insects to the flowering plant.

Pollen Transport

Insects and wind are major pollinators. The insect then flies off to other flowers, taking the pollen from the first flower with it. When the insect lands on a new flower, the pollen it picked up from the first flower rubs off onto the stigma of the new flower.

Filament

The filament is a slender stem that supports the anther.

Ovule

The ovule is like the egg in animals and once fertilization has taken place will become the seed.

Style

The pollen grains grow down through this stem like tube called the style. Style is sometimes called the pollen tube, when pollen is being transferred down to the ovary.

Ovary

The protects the ovule and once fertilization has taken place it will become the fruit. The ovary protects the ovules. pollen travels to the ovules and fertilization takes place. Now the ovules will develop into seeds.

Stigma

The stigma- the pollen grains stick to this small sticky pad. The stigma is the top of the female part of the flower. When insects such as bees come to gather pollen from a plant, the sticky stigma collects any pollen from other flowers that may be on the bees legs. The pollen from another flower collects on the stigma's sticky surface.

Receptacle

This is the flower's attachment to the stalk and in some cases becomes part of the fruit after fertilization e.g. strawberry.

Reproduction

Very soon after the pollen-grain has fallen on the pistil, there grows from it a little tube which reaches down through the stem of the pistil(style) into the egg-case(ovary) at the bottom, where it unites with the egg-cell and together they form the seed which is to reproduce the plant.