pistil

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• Like the pistillate flower it may be subterminal or lateral, but a subterminal pistillate flower may become a pseudolateral conelet by reason of a summer-growth (fig. 40-a). The Genus Pinus
• The little flowers that grow out of the cyathium are called pistillate flowers. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• In addition, there was a negative correlation between the number of stamens and the number of pistils within female flowers.
• The condition of the pistillary organs in prolified flowers has already been alluded to. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• If the catkins remain dormant when the pistillate flowers bloom, they have been winterkilled, and the bent down reserves have to be called up. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
• One particular plant of the zellernut type grown in one of my city lots during the last season was very well filled with pistillate blossoms and not one catkin on it, and still it ripened a fairly good crop of perfect nuts, where the nearest plants filled with staminate blossoms was at least 30 feet from it. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
• Pistillate flowers have the same perianth but the number of parts is more variable; staminodes are well developed with or without a rudimentary anther.
• Members of Atripliceae are characterized by flowers that are usually unisexual, with a perianth present in staminate flowers, and with pistillate flowers lacking a perianth but having accrescent bracteoles in fruit.
• In a hermaphroditic plant, flowers are first staminate, then pistillate, and the sexual stages do not overlap within the flower.
• The pistil and the stamen of the flowers are the specialized organs responsible for the reproductive processes.