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Pollen

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SEM image of pollen grains from a variety of common plants: sunflower (Helianthus annuus), morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea), prairie hollyhock (Sidalcea malviflora), oriental lily (Lilium auratum), evening primrose (Oenothera fruticosa), and castor bean (Ricinus communis).

Closeup image of a cactus flower and its stamens

European honey bee carrying pollen in a pollen basket back to the hive

Tip of a tulip stamen. Note the grains of pollen

Pollen sticking to a bee. Insects involuntarily transporting pollen from flower to flower play an important role in many plants' reproductive cycles.

Marmalade fly sitting on a grey-haired rockrose, its face and legs covered in pollen.

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement between the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants. When pollen lands on a compatible pistil of flowering plants, it germinates and produces a pollen tube that transfers the sperm to the ovule of a receptive ovary. The individual pollen grains are small enough to require magnification to see detail.