Looking Back

Crab-apple blooms of this past Spring. Private grounds, May, 2014

Note the variations in sexual anatomy from bloom to bloom:

Pollination is the movement of pollen from the stamens to the stigma, where germination and growth of the pollen tube occur. Most (approximately 96 percent) of all flowering plant species are hermaphroditic (possess both sexual functions within a plant, usually within every flower), and thus an individual can be pollinated by its own pollen or by pollen from another individual.

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