Anthers and Stigmas and Styles, Oh My!

These are Brassica Oleracea they are considered a perfect flowers. They are called perfect flowers because they have both male and female parts. Since the Brassica Oleracea is a perfect flower it means that it can sexually reproduce by itself. Since this happens, it means that it is much easier for new plants of this species to grow. In other species plants the male and female parts would usually located in other flowers of that plant, and others the male and female parts are in other plants. This makes reproduction much harder.

This is the stamen of the Brassica Oleracea. The stamen in a plant is basically the male reproductive anatomy the long stalk is called the filament. The stalk comes out of the base of the flower, and the filament ends with an elf shoe like looking thing. This thing is called the anther. Without the anther the plant wouldn't be able to make pollen grains. Pollen grains are the plants male gametes, and pollen is the equivalent of sperm cells.

This is the female reproductive anatomy of the Brassica Oleracea. This part of the plant is called the carpel. Just like the stamen the carpel also has a stalk as well, but this stalk instead is called the style. At the tip of the carpel's style is the super sticky stigma. Since the stigma is super sticky it makes it super easy for it to collect pollen from the anther.


This is a picture of Brassica Oleracea that has been stripped all the way down the ovary and the ovule. The ovary is the big green thing in the picture. The little green orb is called an ovule. An ovule is an immature and an unfertilized Brassica Oleracea seed, and they are located in the Brassica Oleracea's ovary.

This is a picture of the Brassica Oleracea's pollen. The pollen is the plants male gametes cells. Without these male gamete cells there wouldn't be any reproduction, and without reproduction no plants would be able to grow.