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What is a stamen?

What is a stamen? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
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Examples of this are furnished by the cardiac muscle of the animal, the pulvinus of Mimosa, and the stamen of berberis.
The pistil and the stamen of the flowers are the specialized organs responsible for the reproductive processes.
Penstemons are sometimes commonly called beardtongues because the sterile stamen has a tuft of small hairs.
The stamen primordia differentiate from globular primordia into elliptic appendages of differing size.
In some species the ten stamens are all united by their filaments or one stamen is free and the other nine are united.
We also have the species Astrantia major with green flowers filled with pinkish stamen which quiver in the slightest of breezes.

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