Iris Secrets
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Iris Secrets
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A lovely open invitation to the bees.In the typical flower (that is, in the majority of flowering plant species) each flower has both carpels and stamens. In some species, however, the flowers are unisexual with only carpels or stamens. (monoecious = both types of flowers found on the same plant; dioecious = the two types of flower found only on different plants). A flower with only stamens is called androecious. A flower with only carpels is called gynoecious.A flower having only functional stamens and lacking functional carpels is called a staminate flower, ormale. A plant with only functional carpels is called pistillate, or female.An abortive or rudimentary stamen is called a staminodium or staminode, such as in Scrophularia nodosa.The carpels and stamens of orchids are fused into a column. The top part of the column is formed by the anther. This is covered by an anther cap.
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November 2nd, 2019
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