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In many cactus flowers the multilobed stigma (which receives the pollen grains) protrudes well up above the anthers (which produce the pollen grains). In most yellow-flowered species of Notocactus, such as this N. mammulosus, the stigma is red.

In a flower, the surface at the tip of a carpel that receives the pollen. It often has short outgrowths, flaps, or hairs to trap pollen and may produce a sticky secretion to which the grains adhere.



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He questioned himself; he sought to divine who could have been that soul in torment which had not been willing to quit this world without leaving this stigma of crime or unhappiness upon the brow of the ancient church.
How the stigma stands out red as blood upon his blanched cheek!
 
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