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Male flowers in Cucurbitaceae generally have five stamens, but in Cucurbita there are only three, and their anthers are joined so that there appears to be one. [9] [10] Female flowers have thick pedicels, and an inferior ovary with 3–5 stigmas that each have two lobes.
Stamen is the Latin word meaning "thread" (originally thread of the warp, in weaving). [8]Filament derives from classical Latin filum, meaning "thread" [8]; Anther derives from French anthère, [9] from classical Latin anthera, meaning "medicine extracted from the flower" [10] [11] in turn from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρά (anthērá), [9] [11] feminine of ἀνθηρός (anthērós) meaning ...
Close-up of a Schlumbergera flower, showing part of the gynoecium (specifically the stigma and part of the style) and the stamens that surround it. Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.
The number of stamens in each flower is a highly variable character. Some species of the euphorbiaceae family have flowers with only one stamen (they are called monanders), the oleaceae have two stamens (flowers dianders) and in the myrtaceae there are numerous (they are polyanders). The number of stamens may or may not be equal to the number ...
Pumpkins produce both a male and female flower, with fertilization usually performed by bees. [22] In America, pumpkins have historically been pollinated by the native squash bee, Peponapis pruinosa, but that bee has declined, probably partly due to pesticide (imidacloprid) sensitivity. [23]
A “fruit” refers to the edible part of the plant that develops from a seed into an ovary (or the product of a flower). Anything characterized as fruit contains one or more seeds and grows on a ...
Per Britannica, pumpkin is technically a type of berry called a pepo, which is a fruit that has a hard outer layer and no dividing chambers. (And for the record, squash is also technically a fruit.)
Flowers that bear a gynoecium but no stamens are called pistillate or carpellate. Flowers lacking a gynoecium are called staminate. The gynoecium is often referred to as female because it gives rise to female (egg-producing) gametophytes; however, strictly speaking sporophytes do not have a sex, only gametophytes do. [1]