pistils

If we examine a perfect flower, we shall find that it consists essentially of two sets of organs, one called the pistils, the other the stamens.

The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. D. A. Compton 1846

"There might be 500 pistils on the tree that we left, and we come and touch each of those, like a bee would accidentally touch them," says Mr. Bradford.

When Apricot Met Plum... Melanie Grayce West 2011

Two portraits of a pair of orchids, framed against textured curtains in the Bhavsars' loft, could pass for painted still-lifes: the vertical lines of the drapes are the backdrop against which the flowers bloom in their circular glory, captured close-up, with their stamens and pistils adding formal details that draw the viewer in.

A Long Path to a Belated Introduction Vibhuti Patel 2011

I remember the very moment when the moonlight became a part of the flower's pistils.

Kien Nguyen talks about his grandfather, the inspiration for his first novel, The Tapestries 2010

The pistils often change from their blond color to become threads of amber.

Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010

Two portraits of a pair of orchids, framed against textured curtains in the Bhavsars' loft, could pass for painted still-lifes: the vertical lines of the drapes are the backdrop against which the flowers bloom in their circular glory, captured close-up, with their stamens and pistils adding formal details that draw the viewer in.

A Long Path to a Belated Introduction Vibhuti Patel 2011

Each flower is wrapped tightly in a drab sheath, from which it sends up a pair of hair-like tubes, pistils in search of the pollen that the artful gardener denies them.

Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010

Check out the tongue and the teeth made with stamens and pistils from the hibiscus flowers.

Archive 2010-05-01 Lauri 2010

The tomb had white marble dado panels both inside and outside in the pishtaqs, which were decorated with flowers in relief, their details so precise and botanical—stamens, pistils, sepals, and petals—that they would fool many a man into thinking they represented some actual flowers grown in Hindustan and not, as was more often true, a fancy of the artist.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

The tomb had white marble dado panels both inside and outside in the pishtaqs, which were decorated with flowers in relief, their details so precise and botanical—stamens, pistils, sepals, and petals—that they would fool many a man into thinking they represented some actual flowers grown in Hindustan and not, as was more often true, a fancy of the artist.

Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010