Flowers Etc Flashcards
Annuals
Go through their whole life cycle from germination to death in one year
Biannuals
Go through their whole life cycle from germination to death in two growing cycles
Perennials
Go through their whole life cycle from germination to death in multiple years
Pedicles
A stem that connects a single flower to the infloresence
Calyx
Pistils
Carpels
Superior
A flower that has the ovary above the other flower parts
Inferior
Has the ovarys underneath all the flower parts
Seed
The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant
Inflorensces
Fruit
The plants reproductive body
Fleshy or dry ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed
Exocarp
The outer epidermis of the pericarp
Endocarp
The inner epidermis of the pericarp
Mesocarp
The epidermis between the endo and exocarp
Pericarp
The ripened ovary wall
Simple fleshy Fruit
A fleshy fruit that derived from a single ovary
Carpel
One of the leaflike, seed bearing structures that constitute the innermost whorl of a flower
Drupe
A simple fleshy fruit that is derived from a single ovary of an individual flower
BErries
A simple fleshy fruit with many seeds
Pomes
Follicle
A dry fruit that is derived from a single carpel and opens on one side only to release its seed
Legume
The long seed pod of a leguminous plant
Siliques
the long, narrow seed pod of many plants of the cabbage family, splitting open when mature