Nymphaea thermarum Archives - Center for Plant Conservation

Mystery of Flowers Unveiled: Reproduction to Parenting

Posted on February 20, 2019 (December 29, 2020) by Caroline Iacuaniello

Photos of the inside of the seeds (taken with a confocal microscope). They both show the inside of mature or nearly-mature seeds – one shows the whole seed, one is a close-up of part of the seed. For scale, the seeds are about 1-2 millimeters long. The pictures show the major tissue types within a water lily seed: an embryo, it’s sibling tissue (‘endosperm’), a nutrient-storage tissue derived from the mother, and a fuzzy, hair-covered seed coat. (Photos @Rebecca Povilus)

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What is Darwin’s “abominable mystery?”

Posted on February 20, 2018 (December 29, 2020) by Caroline Iacuaniello

Flower and ovule morphogenesis in Nymphaea thermarum. Stages in floral biology, gynoecium development and ovule morphogenesis are depicted at 12, 6, 2 and 1 days before anthesis, as well as the first and second day of anthesis.

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