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Bastiaan J.D. Meeuse
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Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle. Author of The Story of Pollination; coauthor of The Sex Life of Flowers.

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Bumblebee on honeysuckle
Pollination, transfer of pollen grains from the stamens (the flower parts that produce them) to the ovule-bearing organs or to the ovules (seed precursors) themselves. In gymnosperm plants such as conifers and cycads, in which the ovules are exposed, the pollen is simply caught in a drop of fluid…
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