stamen

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This allowed them to identify a signal emitted by the maternal tissue that attracts pollen tubes by leading them to elongate along the stamen tissue and reach the site of fertilization.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

When a bee rummages around for nectar in the flower’s center, it triggers the next stamen to come sweeping in, ready for a new bee, or the previous bee’s return.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2019

Each stamen consists of a stalk called a filament with an anther at its tip.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

Her ivory neck and face rises like a stamen from her red satin dress, perhaps evoking the Florentine fleur-de-lis.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

I gently pull the stamen through the blossom and set the drop of nectar on my tongue.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins