Sexual Reproduction in Plants
Written by Sherene Isaac

The sperm in the pollen tube meets the egg. This process is called fertilisation.

Flowers have male parts called stamens. Each stamen has a filament and an anther.

Stamens usually occur outside pistils.

Flowering plants produce flowers of different shapes, sizes and colours.

If the seeds get water, oxygen and warmth they grow into new plants.

Pollen is made in the anther. Pollen moved by wind is light. Sticky pollen is moved by insects and birds.

Pollen is transferred to the stigma. This process is called pollination.

The pistils are the female parts. A pistil has a stigma, style and ovary. Inside the ovary are ovules.

The pollen grain sends a tube down the style to the egg inside the ovule of the ovary.

The fertilised egg becomes the embryo, the ovule becomes the seed. The fruit contains the seeds.

The seeds are scattered or dispersed by the plant itself, wind, water or animals.