Flower Item
Flower: For other uses, see Flower (disambiguation). "Floral" redirects here. For other uses, see Floral (disambiguation). Flowers or clusters of flowers produced by twelve species of Angiosperms from different families. Selection of differently constructed flowers at different stages of vascular plant development A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) resulting from cross-pollination or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower) when self-pollination occurs. There are two types of pollination: self-pollination and cross-pollination. Self-pollination occurs when the pollen from the anther is deposited on the stigma of t