Who+ate+our+Azaleas?


 * Group Members:** Georgia T, Pam D, Jordan T

=AZALEAS= Genus: Rhododendron Figure 1: The Azalea Flower
 * Plant Species indica cultivar "George Taber"**
 * Plant Family: Ericaceae**
 * Common Name** Azalea

Floral Morphology and Visitations
The flowers of the azalea are large and bright (Figure 1) to attract animals for them to land on the flower, thus being able to pollinae it. The below table illustrates measurements taken for key morphological fatures measured by a caliper (Figure 2)

Table 1: Stigma to Ovary Length, Fillament Legnth and Distance of Stigma to Anther of Stigma to Ovary || Length of the Fillament || Stigma/anther distance || Petal Length || Figure 2: Illustrates how the morphological features were measured Figure 3: Illustrates the Fillament and Stigma Note: The ovary is superior.
 * Measurement number || Length
 * || cm || cm || cm || cm ||~  ||
 * 1 || 4.42 || 3.32 || 2.13 || 4.97 ||~  ||
 * 2 || 4.54 || 2.90 || 1.42 || 4.67 ||~  ||
 * 3 || 4.71 || 2.61 || 1.76 || 4.51 ||~  ||
 * 4 || 4.71 || 2.62 || 1.63 || 4.75 ||~  ||
 * 5 || 4.43 || 2.65 || 1.81 || 4.61 ||~  ||
 * 6 || 4.70 || 2.71 || 1.92 || 4.44 ||~  ||
 * 7 || 5.20 || 3.00 || 2.10 || 4.45 ||~  ||
 * 8 || 4.71 || 2.91 || 1.81 || 3.72 ||~  ||
 * 9 || 4.65 || 2.85 || 1.50 || 4.31 ||~  ||
 * 10 || 4.92 || 2.72 || 1.45 || 3.65 ||~  ||
 * Average || 4.70 || 2.83 || 1.753 || 4.41 ||~  ||
 * SD || 0.23048 || 0.21915 || 0.25359 || 0.42334 ||  ||

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY
The pollen produced is (abundant/not) in each flower. The shape of the pollen grains were tetrahedral (tetrads). They were shown below to be 40x magnification (scale bar could not be provided) (FIGURE 5)

Figure 4: The anthers under the black light to show the pollen

Figure 5: Microscope photograph of 40x magnifcation of a cluster of pollen grains.