Flower Eggs?

The culmination of our Seed Study includes discussing the life cycle of a flower.  Today we reviewed the reproductive parts of a flower and then we each dissected a flower.

We learned that, in order for a flower to make a new seed that would result in a new flower, The pollen from the male part of the flower (stamen) has to travel to the female part of the flower (stigma).  Then the pollen follows a tube to the eggs where fertilization takes place.  When the flower dies and falls to the ground the new seeds can then germinate and put down their roots.  Check out this picture of the flower.  We scraped some of the green off of the base of the flower to reveal the flower eggs!  Have you ever seen this before??