Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sarracenia flower

Sarracenia flower

Cutaway view of a Sarracenia flower with anatomical parts labeled

The floral anatomy of Sarracenia (the North American Pitcher Plants) is unusual and the accompanying pollination mechanism is relatively complicated; I created this image to clearly illustrate the morphophysiological features so that the pollination process could be better understood. This image appears on the Sarracenia page, and a version with German labels appears on the corresponding German de:Schlauchpflanzen page.

• Self-Nominate and support. - NoahElhardt 17:08, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Wonderful diagram of a beautiful flower, very interesting/informing. I translated it into French for you too. - Garrett Rock
• Support. Pleasing to the eye and encyclopedic! --Pharaoh Hound 21:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support great quality, a better diagram than you get from school text books! Very clear and straight forward.--Andeh 23:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
• Conditional Support There's most probably a typo in the legend: "Fillament" should be "Filament", fix that and you can strike the "conditional" in my support. --Janke | Talk 05:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • You're right, thanks for pointing that out! Its fixed now. --NoahElhardt 15:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - it's a pity that this flower anatomy only applies to this very specific plant. The "Umbrella shaped style catches pollen" irks me a bit - the rest of the labels simply indicate parts of the flower, rather than being descriptive. So I suggest completely deleting that label, or possibly reworking it into the other "style" label (Perhaps as "Style (umbrella shape catches pollen)"). Also, some fact checking would be good, anyone? Stevage 07:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • The umbrella shaped style is the whole reason this image was needed - no other genus has it (that I know of), and a simple description of the flower doesn't do it justice. I could have just labeled it "style", but I used the wording I did so that the unique function of this style is apparent without reading the accompanying text. --NoahElhardt 15:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Fact checking - not again ;). Agree with Stevage's take on the 'style' labelling. Also, as per Janke, filament (fillament) is mispelt. I also dislike the inconsistent use of singular/plural, e.g., I'm sure that line is pointing to a single anther (labelled anthers), and why point to two petals, but only one of everything else (e.g., there's more than one sepal and more than one bract in view as well). I will withhold my vote and would encourage a tidy up. --jjron 09:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I removed the plurality from petal(s) and anther(s), but left it on ovules, as there was no way to point out a single ovule. (Personally I preferred plurals where doing so was convenient (the sepals and bracts weren't close enough together), but this works as well I guess).
• New version is also larger size (2048x1536 rather than 1024x768). --NoahElhardt 15:38, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Still not happy that "style" is pointed to twice - once plainly "Style", and once descriptively "Umbrella shaped style catches pollen". Why not combine them? In any case, it should be "Umbrella-shaped" (hyphenated). Hmph. :) Stevage 11:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

• Support informative diagram, might also prove usefull in illustrating plant sexuality ˉˉ^anetode╞┬╡ 04:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Englishtitles2-1.jpg --Fir0002 01:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)