Styled Purple. Salvia pratensis, Meadow Sage, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
It seems a bit early at the end of April for Meadow Sage. But here it is though still a rather diminutive plant huddled close to the ground. I've posted photos of Meadow Sage before, but I thought this one to be interesting, too.
What I mean comes to light in Olymp's inset of the Flower's style. You can see the style itself - a kind of sheath that protects the delicate stigma's tube into the Flower's gynoecium that contains the ovules receptive of the pollen's power in order to bear seed. The golden pollen will land on the top of the stigma tube - see that dark 'protrusion' in the inset - and deliver its goods downward.
Styled Purple. Salvia pratensis, Meadow Sage, Océ-weerd, Meuse Corridor, Venlo, The Netherlands
It seems a bit early at the end of April for Meadow Sage. But here it is though still a rather diminutive plant huddled close to the ground. I've posted photos of Meadow Sage before, but I thought this one to be interesting, too.
What I mean comes to light in Olymp's inset of the Flower's style. You can see the style itself - a kind of sheath that protects the delicate stigma's tube into the Flower's gynoecium that contains the ovules receptive of the pollen's power in order to bear seed. The golden pollen will land on the top of the stigma tube - see that dark 'protrusion' in the inset - and deliver its goods downward.