Question

The flower of brinjal is referred to as chasmogamous while that of beans is clistogamous. How are they different from each other?

Answer 1

chasmogamous flower are those flowers with open petals and exposed reproductive parts which enable them for cross- fertilisation while clistogamous flowers are those without exposed reproductive parts and open petals due to which they use only self-fertilization.

Answer 2

Chasmogamous flowers are open with exposing anthers and stigma.
Wheras Cleistogamous flowers are those which do not open at all.
Chasmogamous flowers may undergo self- pollination or cross- pollination but cleistogamous flowers undergo only self pollination only.