Style

Style [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

A style is the usually slender supportive stalk of a pistil, situated between the ovary and the stigma

The style becomes the pathway for pollen tubes (that grow from pollen grains) adhering to the stigma, to the ovules, carrying the reproductive material. A single style may bear more than one stigma, In Cactaceae the style old up multiple stigmas typically 3-20.

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