Flower stigma. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a flower's stigma (orange) and style (brown). These are part of a plant's female reprodu

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Flower stigma. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a flower's stigma (orange) and style (brown). These are part of a plant's female reproductive structures. Pollen grains, a flower's male reproductive cells, land on the stigma and burrow a tube down through the style to the ovary, where they fertilise the female sex cell (ovule). Magnification: x40 when printed at 10 centimetres wide.

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Photo credit: © STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: anatomy, biological, biology, botanical, botany, carpel, coloured, dicot, dicotyledon, false-coloured, female, flora, flower, flowering, nature, part, parts, plant, plants, reproduction, reproductive, sem, stigma, structure, structures, style