Blog Post #10: Anthers and stigmas and styles.

The Brassica Oleracea plants reproduce when they start producing pollen. Once this starts other plants that are "sexually mature" can use the pollen. When the pollen lands on the stigma of a flower the pollen creates a tube that runs down the the ovary of the plant. Then the fertilization occurs when the gametes combine and make a seed.

 This is a picture of the flower we dissected. The name of  the plant is Brassica Oleracea. We took its parts apart and dissected it and studied it under the microscope.

 This part of the plant is the male reproductive anatomy.  This part is called the stamen, it produces pollen and it also releases it. The stamen has a stalk that is called the filament and it has a part at the end of the stalk called the anther.

 This picture shows the female reproductive part of a the plant, its called the carpel. The carpel also has a stalk called a style and the style has a sticky part called  the stigma. This part collects the pollen by making it stick to itself. 

This is a close up picture of the pollen. It is also surrounded by some type of wax. The pollen is what the male part of a plant produces. This contains the gametes of the plant and it also produces seeds once inside the female part of a plant.