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Where does fertilization usually take place in flowering plants?
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Fungi produce billions of spores that give rise to new generations of fungi.
In flowering plants, fertilization typically takes place within the ovule, which is located inside the ovary of the flower.12
The process begins when pollen grains land on the receptive stigma and germinate, sending a pollen tube down through the style toward the ovule. Upon reaching the ovule, the pollen tube enters through a small opening called the micropyle and discharges its sperm nuclei into the embryo sac, where fertilization occurs. Flowering plants are unique in that they undergo double fertilization, a process where one sperm cell fuses with the egg to form a zygote, while a second sperm cell fuses with two polar nuclei to form the endosperm.312