female squash flower

Published March 24, 2014 at 774 × 518 in Seed saving 101: Cucurbits
female squash flower

Female flowers (squash flower pictured here) have a bulbous structure, the ovary, between the stem and the flower petals. The ovary will develop into the fruit after pollination.

female squash flower showing ovary at base

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