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imagine having one (1) vagina but six (6) ovaries and u can have like 4 babies per ovary bc u have 4 eggs in each and each egg needs to be fertilized separately though the same vagina so u gotta have sex at LEAST 6 times with the sperm going to an entirely different compartment within a compartment each time. this is what orange trees gotta go through for each flower. 

this actually happens in most, if not all, flowering plants, although the extent varies depending on how many ovaries a plant has (some might have 2, others- like the orange- might have way more). pollen lands on the female parts of the flower, and each grain picks one (1) compartment to go into, and then picks which egg sack within that compartment it wants to fertilize once it’s in there. each compartment (ovary) will grow around the developing egg sacs to form a nice fleshy cocoon, and those are the ‘slices’ you see; they’re actually multiple separate compartments of an organ with their own enclosed seeds.

this is what this process looks like in a tomato flower. all the bright green lines are structures called pollen tubes, which are carrying sperm from pollen on the exposed part of the flower down into the ovules (NOTE: in botany, ovules are different from ovaries. each ovary contains several ovules; the ovules are the things that get pollenated by incoming sperm, and will develop into seeds. the ovary is the thing holding them that develops into fruit slices). notice picture D; there’s one set of sperm for each ovule pouch, and when we look at picture C we can see that these pouches are already lined up into designated sections. 

after a bit of development:

bam………..the organized red orb herself. 

idk why orange ovaries are separated enough to be pulled apart by hand tho. thats wack man