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In the centre is the Pistil, which is made up of the stigma (where the focus is) on top of the style and attached at the ovary. The stigma is surrounded by the stamens, the long pointed bits with the tips called the anthers on long filaments. The surrounding, protective Petals come in many colours and the whole is attached to the plant via the Pedicel (not shown in this view).
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
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- Stigmas are adapted to trap pollen with hairs, flaps and other surfaces to increase their efficiency. Most stigmas are covered with a waxy, sticky substance. This wet substance allows stigmas to provide an important service by re-hydrating dry pollen to prepare the grains to enter the ovary and initiate the process of fertilization.-
Entre todas las hierbas y hierbajos crecidos a consecuencia de las lluvias a aparecido está bonita campanilla.
Stigma and anthers of a Hippeastrum flower taken at this years' Melbourne International Flower and Garden show.
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A produce sales place had these lovely flowers for sale. Beautiful color and structure, don't you think? The six anthers are clearly visible in the flower just to the right of center. The green stigma is, too. You can also see the three petals, surrounding the reproductive parts, and the three sepals, under them, and showing few, if any, of those red spots, that are found on the petals.
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Close up view of the stigma of a lily flower taken at the MIFGS
2022.
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I bought a bunch of lilies and was surprised when they opened as they were perfumed.
Macro of the stigma, you can see clouds reflected back.
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Working my way through the photos I have remaining from 2021, so many images I never post but ought to, this from my old balcony, hopefully I'll get some more this coming Summer on my new one, which might I add is much bigger. So this one is back to my macro, which is photography I feel more comfortable with, I know it's very popular and I can see why, there's a whole new world at least visually utilising this category.
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Finally a new one for 2022, I took Bobby for a walk through the woods near Karluster Straße, my new home and took a few captures, I just love how when the Sun is at a certain point, the moss seems to literally glow in response, I really like that. So with my trusty RaynoxDCR250 I snapped a few Macros, I hope I caught this right.
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adapted to assist the adhesion of pollen, the stigma is part of the female flower, freesias smell nice too!
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It was for sale at the local supermarket, but I didn't buy it. Six anthers, and a three-part stigma, are obvious (plus petals and sepals).
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Zinnias have showy ray flowers, surrounding less showy, but important, disc flowers, which do the reproducing. Here we see a stigma, the flower part that catches pollen, sticking up. There are some male flower parts next to it, too.
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The stigma is the female part of a flower that receives the pollen from the male anthers in pollination.
Lavender, or pink, or something else. I'm not good at naming colors.
One of our azalea bushes, seen for perhaps the last time, as we moved away from here a few days later.
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A fine hibiscus flower. (Hibiscus is the common and also the genus name.) The reproductive parts, most of them, are on a single stalk. The five dark red objects at the top of the stalk are the stigmas, designed to catch pollen for fertilization. The stalk is the style. The anthers, with their yellow pollen, come out of the style below the stigmas. As it happens, the shadow of the whole apparatus is on one of the petals.
Hibiscus flowers can be rather large. This one was roughly the size of my hand.
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Part of the flowers for sale at a Lowe's, in Upstate South Carolina. Great anthers, all six of them, and a fine style and stigma rising above them. Says something about the superiority of the female over the male, perhaps . . .
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Extreme closeup of a colorful tropical Hibiscus stigma or Carpel or Snowflake (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)
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Hibiscus stigma.
Family: Malvaceae.
Taken in the Mountainside neighbourhood of Gordon's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.
The beautiful flower Hellebore brings a touch of colour at the time of year when things are grey and gloomy.
I captured this one in full bloom (in colour) and converted to black and white. The original colour was magenta, which leant itself to creating a black background for the stamen and stigma to stand out against.