Curmudgeon wrote:
Gene, you captured the essence of this one. I have forgotten all my college botany but the little stamens or what ever they are really make this shot unique.
Hey! I have a master's degree in botany from Oklahoma State and I still had to look it up.
Stamen, the male reproductive part of a flower. In all but a few extant angiosperms, the stamen consists of a long slender stalk, the filament, with a two-lobed anther at the tip. The anther consists of four saclike structures (microsporangia) that produce pollen for pollination.