How does pistillate flowers reproduce?

Question

How does pistillate flowers reproduce?

Answer 1

The egg cell in pistillate flowers needs pollen from staminate flowers of the same sort of plant for ( sexual ) reproduction. Some plants are pollinated by insects ( Melons f.e. ), some by wind ( ginkgo f.e. )

Plants having the male and female reproductive organs in different flowers are called dioecious.

Here a pic of pistillate flower of a sort of melon:

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/mi13/mi13...

and one of staminate flower:

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/dcs420/c/...