Angiosperms Poster
Angiosperms Poster
Angiosperms Poster
FLOWERING Plants
Stigma
(receives the pollen
during fertilization)
Anther
(contains pollen, the
male reproductive
Stamen
cell)
Pistil
Ovary
(female reproductive
Filament organ)
(holds the anther)
Ovule
(reproductive cell which will
become the seed when
fertilized by pollen)
Fertilization
Pollination is often aided by insects like bees, which fly from flower to flower; as they visit flowers,
they spread pollen and deposit it on the stigmas. After pollen grains have landed on the stigma, pollen
tubes develop, and burrow down into the ovary, there the pollen (sperm cell) fertilizes an ovule (egg
cell). After fertilization, the ovule develops into a seed.
In contrast to the idealized diagram above flowers actually are quite varied in appearance. Petals come
in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, some “petals” are actually leaves. (Some types of flowers have
both male and female reproductive organs (as shown above), others have only male or only female
reproductive organs.)
female
The colorful, showy The blossom is really This lily has both male
bracts are actually a cluster of small and female parts. It is
modified leaves. The flowers. The showy comparable to the
true flowers are outer flowers, which idealized flower
yellow and held in the look like petals, are diagram above.
center of the bracts in called rays. The fertile
a structure called a disc flowers grow in
cyathium. the middle. male
Primroses have dimorphic
flowers: two different
forms (male or female)
are found on different
plants of the same
species.