The simplicity of the flowers of the Salicaceae is largely due to extreme reduction ... in carpels from four to two (in Populus), and the attainment in both genera of a specialized syncarpous ovary.

This film introduces the anatomy of the flower, including the receptacle, sepals, nectaries, carpel, stigma, style, ovary, stamen and petals. By describing the functions of each organ in a simple ...

For years, a mysterious tangle of tissue lurking beneath the ovary has been dismissed, absent from anatomy charts and medical ...