Pollination

An Andrena bee collects pollen among the stamens of a rose. The female carpel structure appears rough and globular to the left. The bee's stash of pollen is on its hind leg.

The mechanical or physical operation of transferring pollen from stamen to pistil.^CH

Gallery

• 

  A flower-fly pollinating a Common Daisy (Bellis perennis)

• 

  Honey bee in the act of pollination.

• 

  Moving spring bees from South Carolina to Maine for blueberry pollination

• 

  Placing honey bees for pumpkin pollination in Mohawk Valley, NY

• 

  Well pollinated blackberry blossom begins to develop fruit. Each incipient drupelet has its own stigma and good pollination requires the delivery of many grains of pollen to the flower so that all drupelets develop.

See also

• Fruit tree pollination
• Hand pollination
• Self-pollination

This article contains a definition from the Glossary of Gardening Terms.