It begins when a pollen grain that carries the sperm cells lands on the top of the pistil, the female reproductive structure of a flower. The pollen grain then germinates into a tube that guides the ...

Despite its fame as one of Japan's iconic orchids, the function of this structure has remained ... and subsequently into the ovary, thereby fertilizing the plant. Suetsugu writes, "The movement ...

According to botanists, a true berry is a fruit that develops from a single ovary of a flower and contains multiple seeds embedded within its fleshy structure, known as the pericarp (the part of ...