Flowers are the reproductive structures of plants. Most flowers are hermaphrodite, this means that they have both male and female parts. The male parts are called stamens and it is in the anthers of the stamens that the pollen is made. The main problem for the plant is how to get the pollen, which contains the male sex cell, to the carpel of another flower. The brightly coloured flowers use certain types of animals to transfer their pollen.
Some flowers depend on the wind to take the pollen from one flower to another flower.
The largest flower is the stinking corpse lily which can be up to 90 centimetres in diameter. The smallest flowers are found on the artillery plant . They are only 0,35 millimetres in diameter. Insect-pollinated flowers Most of the animals which transfer pollen from flower to flower are insects. These flowers are called insect-pollinated flowers.