Cross pollination is when one plant pollinates a plant of another variety. The two plants' genetic material combines and the resulting seeds from that pollination will have characteristics of both varieties and is a new variety. Sometimes cross pollinating is used intentionally in the garden to create new varieties.

What is cross pollination example?

When a bee takes pollen from one plant and transfers it to another, this is an example of cross-pollination. The transfer of pollen from an anther of a flower of one plant to a stigma of a flower of another plant of the same species.

How does cross pollination takes place in flowering plants?

Cross-pollination, also called heterogamy, type of pollination in which sperm-laden pollen grains are transferred from the cones or flowers of one plant to egg-bearing cones or flowers of another.