Question

Name the parts of a flower.

Answer 1

Parts of the flower are being mentioned below: -

Parts of flower
Vegetative part	Reproductive part
Petals & Sepals	Stamen. Style, Pistil, Ovary & Stigma

Petals: -

1. Flowers' reproductive organs are encircled by petals, which are modified leaves.To Draw pollinators, they frequently have vivid colours or odd shapes.
2. The corolla is the term used to refer to a flower's entire set of petals. Typically, petals are accompanied by a second group of modified leaves called sepals, which together make up the calyx and are located directly below the corolla.
3. The perianth, or part of a flower that is not used for reproduction, is made up of the calyx and the corolla. Tepals are the collective term for a flower's difficult-to-distinguish petals and sepals. Genera like Aloe and Tulipa are examples of plants for which the name "tepal" is applicable.

Sepals: -

1. Small, like leaves, sepals are the flower's outermost segment and are green in colour.
2. They are a flower's vegetative component, which safeguards the developing buds and supports the petals when the flower is in bloom. Sepals are thought of as modified leaves.

Stamen: -

1. The male reproductive components of flowering plants are stamens.
2. They are made up of an anther, which is where pollen develops, and, in the majority of species, a filament that resembles a stalk and carries water and nutrients to the anther while positioning it to facilitate pollen dissemination.

Style: -

1. The stalk that holds up the stigma and joins it to the ovary is referred to as a flower's style.
2. The pollen tubes that carry sperm cells to the egg travel through the style, which is one of the style's main functions in aiding fertilization.

Pistil: -

1. The pistil is a flower's female reproductive organ. The centrally situated pistil normally consists of a swollen base called the ovary.
2. The ovary houses the prospective seeds or ovules; a stalk called the style that emerges from the ovary and a stigma with a variety of shapes and is frequently sticky.

Ovary: -

1. An ovary is a component of a plant that serves as the structure where fertilization and seed development take place. The fruit used to disperse seeds is often the ovary.
2. The ovary is often found below the stigma and style at the base of the flower. The ovary contains one or more eggs, often known as ovules.
3. Different flower species have different ovule arrangements. Monocarpous flowers are those that only have one carpel. Syncarpous flowers are those with two or more fused carpels. Two or more distinct carpels are present in apocarpous flowers.

Stigma:-

1. The uppermost portion of the carpels of a flower's gynoecium is known as the stigma.
2. Stigma serves as a receptive tip that gathers pollen grains in all flowering plants.

Below is a schematic diagram of the flower: -

Figure 01: - Schematic diagram of a flower