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Pollination
Fertilisation
The carpel is the female part and made of the stigma, style and ovary. In the ovary are ovules which have the female egg cell.
Flowers come in many shapes, colours and sizes. They are usually specially adapted to particular types of pollination.
There are two types of pollination. Cross pollination when pollen goes from one plant to another of the same type. This kind of pollination results in stronger plants.
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the anther to the sticky stigma by wind, animals/insects or water.
The other type of pollination is self pollination where the pollen goes from the anther to the stigma of the same plant. This can result in a genetically weaker plant
Australian Honey Possum The Australian honey possum is one of the only mammal species, other than bats, known to eat nectar and pollen as the mainstay of its diet.
Brazilian Birthwort
The Brazilian birthwort uses insects as pollinators. The putrid odor of this specieslike that of rotting fleshespecially attracts flies, which enter the plant and become trapped overnight. While they are trapped, they become completely dusted with pollen. They escape the following day as the plant withers and are attracted to other Brazilian birthworts, which they then inadvertently pollinate as they enter and again become trapped.
Lawson Cypress Branch The Lawson cypress, like all other coniferous trees, is wind pollinated. The tiny male flowers are located at the ends of the small branchlets, where the wind can easily pick up and distribute their pollen.
Rose Hip
When rose hips become ripe, they change in color from green to red. Attracted by the red color, both birds and other mammals eat the rose hips as a part of their diet. The individual seeds of the rose hip have a tough outer skin that allows them to pass through the digestive tract of an animal undigested, ensuring successful wideranging dispersal.
Dorling Kindersley
"Rose Hip," Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia. 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The lesser burdock plant has a fruit that is encased in a burr covered with hooks. These hooks enable the burr to easily attach to the fur of passing
animals, which ensures wide-ranging dispersal of the seeds.