Hiro Shimai, Curator
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2025 Curator update
Glasgow Botanic Gardens Curator Dr Hiro Shimao gives an update on the collection from 2025 including sugar palms, trees, memorial trees and orchids. This year (from January 2025), we have received more than 1000 species (including cultivars and hybrids) of seeds and plants from many botanical gardens and individuals.
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Pollination and Fertilisation of Flowering Plants
In the previous article, the pollination of flowering plants (angiosperms) was explained. Pollination, however, is just the first step in producing seeds. Fertilisation Fertilisation must have been completed for seed production. When the pollen attaches to the stigma, the fertilisation process starts. Pollen tube from pollen grain As soon as a pollen grain attaches to