Pollen grains only produce tubes in flowers of their own species. Justify your answer.

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For successful fertilisation, pollen grain that is fertilising the ovule of a flower should belong to the same species to which the fertilising flower belongs. Pollination will occur but fertilisation does not occur if pollen of a flower and ovule of a flower belongs to different species and this is known as incompatibility.

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