MrsDTB here! The following is a short journal entry from MasterKAF. Over to you sir…
I read a thing on Q-files, so here are my top 3 facts I learned.
The smallest flower in the world is called Wolffia, but you might know it as duckweed, yes, that annoying stuff that covers your pond is a flower.
Dandelions can self reproduce, but insects may carry the pollen from one flower to another. However, dandelions have both male and female organs on the same flower. The flowers can pollinate themselves. Thus it only takes one dandelion to reproduce itself and spread quickly over a lawn on a windy day.
Some flowers are male and female and some are just one gender. This from Q-files: “The male reproductive part of a flower, consisting of an anther and filament, is called a stamen. Pollen is produced in the bag-like anthers on stalks, called filaments. Each pollen grain contains a male cell.”
“The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, style and stigma, is called a carpel. The female cells or ovules (eggs) are in the ovary, a fleshy part at the flower’s base. A taller part, called the style, sticks up from this, with the stigma at its top. Some flowers have one carpel, while others have a cluster of carpels, called a
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