THE VIDEO THAT PAIRS WITH THESE NOTES CAN BE FOUND HERE AT MAD GARDEN SCIENCE.

FLOWER DISSECTION
This is a Lily, we are going to use this flower, because it’s large and the parts are easy to see and
identify.

Looking at the flower we can see the STALK, which supports the flower and the PETALS. The flower
petals are COLORFUL, and often scented. Their job is to ATTRACT pollinating animals to the flower.
They come in all shapes and sizes and they often look even brighter to insect eyes than to our
human eyes!

Next is the STYLE, it supports our next structure, the STIGMA, right here on top.

The stigma is the FEMALE part of the flower and either has a sticky tip or fine little hairs to trap all
the pollen.

This POLLEN is the fine yellow grains found on a tubular structure called the ANTHER, which
contains the plant’s MALE reproductive cells. 

Each anther sits on top of a long filament, called the STAMEN.

If we open up this part, we can see the OVARY. This part of the flower contains the female
reproductive cells, called OVULES, which are fertilized by the pollen. 

FERTILIZATION PROCESS
When POLLEN lands on a flower’s stigma, it grows a tiny TUBE that travels through the style, taking
the male pollen cells to the OVARY. The male cells JOIN with the female cells, in the ovules.

After FERTILIZATION, the ovary develops into a FRUIT, with SEEDS inside. This fruit that we’re
talking about isn’t always something that we can eat, but all of our fruit that we do eat is
PRODUCED this way!

The next time you are on a walk or in a garden, stop, take a closer look at the flowers. See if you
can spot all of the structures we learned about today.