Carpel The female part of the flower (consists of an ovary, a stigma, and usually a style.) Stigma The top of the female part of the flower which collects pollen grains. self pollination - pollen ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

After Makino's discovery, the plant was named for the unique, tiny finger-like appendage (the "dactylus" part) on its stigma, the flower's female organ that receives pollen. Despite its fame as ...

are almost compelled to be the involuntary agents in the transmission of the pollen from the anther to the stigma in a different flower of the same species. In almost all cases, however ...

Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name — revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ensure reproduction.