delirium florens
Purple tulips
This new addition to my tulip series is both interesting for its unusual colours and somewhat amusing because it looks a bit like a colour-coded classroom model of flower anatomy. On the outside of the flower we find the purple petals, which surround the reproductive organs of the flower. Right in the centre, we find the gynoecium (the female reproductive organs), which may consist of one or more separate pistils.
The tulip only has one pistil, made up of the light yellow stigma at the top, a (in this case barely visible) style and the olive-shaped and lightly olive-coloured ovary. While the stigma recives the pollen, the ovary contains the ovule (or ovules). It later becomes the fruit containing the seeds. The style has no seperate function other than connecting the other two parts.
Around the gynoecium, we find the 6 stamens, which together form the androecium (the male reproductive). Each stamen is made up of a blue filament and a dark yellow/orange anther, which carries the pollen.
All pictures in this series will be added to my tulip folder If you are interested in some general information about tulips, there's a longer text alongside this picture of a wayside tulip and finally there are some thoughts about this series attached to the first picture in it.
Purple tulips
This new addition to my tulip series is both interesting for its unusual colours and somewhat amusing because it looks a bit like a colour-coded classroom model of flower anatomy. On the outside of the flower we find the purple petals, which surround the reproductive organs of the flower. Right in the centre, we find the gynoecium (the female reproductive organs), which may consist of one or more separate pistils.
The tulip only has one pistil, made up of the light yellow stigma at the top, a (in this case barely visible) style and the olive-shaped and lightly olive-coloured ovary. While the stigma recives the pollen, the ovary contains the ovule (or ovules). It later becomes the fruit containing the seeds. The style has no seperate function other than connecting the other two parts.
Around the gynoecium, we find the 6 stamens, which together form the androecium (the male reproductive). Each stamen is made up of a blue filament and a dark yellow/orange anther, which carries the pollen.
All pictures in this series will be added to my tulip folder If you are interested in some general information about tulips, there's a longer text alongside this picture of a wayside tulip and finally there are some thoughts about this series attached to the first picture in it.