A SHIRLEY POPPY SHOWING 

 REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 



The petals of a flower are designed 

 to attract insects. The essential organs 

 are the pollen-bearing stamens and the 

 pistil inclosing the ovule at the center 

 of the flower. This picture shows the 

 large number of stamens of the poppy, 

 each with a terminal anther, bearing 

 pollen, growing in a circle about the 

 pistil with its curiously rounded end, 

 called a stigma, designed to receive the 

 pollen. The office of the insect is to 

 transfer pollen from the stamens of one 

 flower to the pistil of another. 



