Pollination and Fertilization
- Allogamy – cross pollination, when one plant pollinates another plant
- Anemophilous – wind pollinated.
- Autogamy – self-pollination, when the flowers of the same plant pollinate flowers on the same plant or themselves.
- Cantharophilous – beetle pollinated
- Chiropterophilous – bat pollinated.
- Cleistogamous – self-pollination of a flower that does not open.
- Dichogamy – Flowers that cannot pollinate themselves because pollen is produced at a time when the stigmas are not receptive of pollen.
- Entomophilous – insect pollinated.
- Hydrophilous – Water pollinated, pollen is moved in water from one flower to the next.
- Malacophilous – pollinated by snails and slugs.
- Ornithophilous – pollinated by birds.
- Pollination – the movement of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
- Protandrous – when pollen is produced and shed before the carpels are mature.
- Progynous – when the carpels mature before the stamens produce pollen.
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