Style
(from stylos, a column; in allusion to its form). The narrow portion of most carpels between the ovary and the stigma. Its use is to support the stigma in such a position as to favour pollination. The cells in its centre are very loosely arranged, and form what is called the "conducting tissue," for the passage of pollen tubes from the pollen grains on the stigma to the ovules in the interior of the ovary.