Pistillate Definition

Pistillate Sentence Examples

• The pistillate whorl is very liable to changes.

• The flowers, which appear in early summer, are in pendulous, slender yellowish catkins, which bear a number of staminate flowers with a few pistillate flowers at the base.

• The staminate contain 8 to 20 stamens which produce an enormous amount of dusty yellow pollen, some of which gets carried by wind to the protruding stigmas of the pistillate flowers.

• When only one of those organs is present the flower is unisexual or diclinous, and is either male (staminate), j, or female (pistillate), ?

• Falling pistils mark the end of the developmental cycle of the individual pistillate calyx.