Tag: pollination
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Pollination Glossary
This post was originally published on July 6, 2011, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). I thought it might be helpful to create a glossary of pollination-related terms, so here goes! Anther: male plant structure on/in which pollen is located. Bract: structure that typically protects a flower bud as it develops, composed usually…
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What is Pollination?
This post was originally published on May 13, 2011, on my blog “Pollinators Info” (no longer online). In brief, pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma. But what does all that mean? To understand it fully, we need to go into a bit of plant reproductive biology… Not all plants…
Athena Rayne Anderson 