female part of flower
- consists of ovary, style above the ovary, and stigma
- Stigma
- Swollen structure at the end of the style
- receives pollen grains
- mature stigma secretes sugary fluid → stimulates pollen grains to germinate
- Style
- Stalk that connects stigma to the ovary
- holds the stigma in a suitable position → to trap pollen grains
- Ovary
- Contains one or more ovules
- within each mature ovule → is the female gamete or egg cell → called ovum
- ovum is produced by meiosis. thus is haploid
