Accession No

4684

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, of fertilisation in angiosperms, English, early 19th Century to late 20th Century

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1035mm; height 626mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

Description Notes

Line drawing of cross-section through stigma, ovary and anthers. Pollen grains marked in blue have landed on the stigma aurface, and their blue pollen tubes are growing towards the ovum (marked in red). One tube has reached the ovum. The left anther is an external view, the right is a cross-section.
Bottom right is a close-up of a pollen grain growing its tube.
Ref number bottom right.
Taken from Sachs, Physiology of Plants, p.761, according to catalogue.
Fragile - right side paper is peeling off cloth.

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