This is a picture of our Cyclamen plant showing the basic parts of the plant. The pistil is made up by the ovary, stigma, and style. The sepal remained attatched to the ovary when we made this cross section because the flower itself is hypogenous. This is a cross section taken from the pistil of the flower showing the ovule, which houses the egg. The yellow color on the stamen are pollen grains.
Pollen grains contain sperm that fertilizes the egg in the ovule.
Pollination Almost all cyclamen plants are outbreeding plants. Outbreeding means that crossing takes place between one plant and another within the same species. Cyclamens do occasionally interbreed, but not very often. Within one flower self pollination is not a possibility because the anthers ripen before the stigma is receptive. The fruit is held very close to the ground, hidden among the leaves.