Share Our Garden!: Flower Porn

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
Jean Giraudoux

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Ahh, time for the show-offs-the flowers! Everybody's (with the exception of Morticia Addams) favorite.Most flowering plants bear 'perfect' flowers in which the flower has both male and female parts.

When the female flower parts are pollinated by pollen(the male sexual parts), the flower produces a fruit of some sort which contains seeds.. On edible fruit, it will become large, fleshy and edible. But in most cases of flowers, it produces a papery, dry enclosure for the seeds. These are designed to distribute the seeds faraway from the parent plant. Or, in some cases, the seeds stay on the plant.

A complete flower contains all the parts needed to reproduce a plant from seed. You will find the receptacle, the point where the flower attaches to the stem; Sepals are those small leaf-like green supporters of the flower; Petals form the next ring just inside the sepals; Stamens, inside the petals are the male sex parts.Typically a stamen consists of a slender stalk or filament topped by an anther (usually a yellow color) which contains the pollen needed for fertilization of the flower to produce seeds; Pistils, found in the very center, are the female sex parts, with an ovary at the base in which seeds will form following pollination, and a stalk-like tube called a style, which rises from the ovary, and topped by a stigma which receives the pollen.

The transfer of pollen from stamens (the guy parts) to pistils (the girl parts) completes pollination, which leads to seed formation and a new generation of plants. Note: there are exceptions where the plant produces only a male flower or only a female flower and then you must have a companion plant to achieve pollination. Pollination occurs when the pollen is transferred from the male to the female parts by wind, birds, insects, bees, etc.

So, all this background work is quietly going on in your garden while you are doing other things!PLUS the fact that they are beautiful, flowers work hard!!!

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