About plants

The plant kingdom is classified as: mosses and liverworts, ferns and their relatives, conifers and flowering plants. Lichen and algae are not plant in the real sense. About the plants

The plant kingdom

The plant kingdom is split into: Mosses and liverworts, ferns and their Relatives, conifers and flowering plants. Lichens and algae are not true About the plants.

Flowering tree

Deciduous trees like this bottle brush are among over 240,000 species of flowering the plant.

What is a flowering plant?

Flowering plant are plants that have flowers to make the seeds and fruits from which new plants will eventually grow. this doesn't only mean garden and wild flowers but every herd grass fruits, shrub and vegetable - all of which have tiny flowers. Another name for flowering plants is angiosperms. About the plants.

Are any big plants not flowering plants?

Yes. Plants that make their seeds in cones rather than in flower these cone - bearing plants or conifers are also known as gymnosperms. They include trees such as pines About the plants.

What are monocotyledons

Flowering plants are either monocotyledons or dicotyledons Monocotyledons begin from seeds with just a single leaf they also tend to have longer, narrower leaves , like grasses tulips and daffodils. Dicotyledons start with two or more then 2. About the plants.

Do all plant grow from seeds?

No, only flowering plants and conifers do. Ferns and mosses grow from tiny sell called spores, which can be seen only under a microscope. About the plants.

Why are plant green?

Plant are green because they contain a green substance called chlorophyll. This pays a vital role in photosynthesis, the process by which plant make their food by absorbing sunlight. In photosynthesis, the plant change carbon dioxide from the air, and hydrogen from water, into energy-giving sugars. A plants stem not only supports the flowers and leaves; it is also a pipe to take water, mineral and food up and down between the leaves and roots. Water goes up through tubes called phloem. Herbaceous plant have soft and green stems while woody plants, like trees, have stiff stems that are often cover with bark. About the plants.

Conifer

Pines and conifers are the oldest trees on the earth as these appeared around 275 million ago About the plants kingdom.

Inside a flower

What are flowering plants?

All plants that have flower are flowering plants flower plants in the garden and the jungle herbs grasses shrubs the trees and all fruits and vegetable plants are flowering plants except for ferns Moses lichens and fungi all plants have flowers even though flowers are not seen on some plants flowers mark the seeds and fruits from which new plants are formed. About the plants kingdom.

Making the seeds

Like there are male and female animals. There are stance and pistils. Stamens are male flower fasts and pistils are female flowers parts when pollen from the steams meets the in the pistils seeds for new plants are male in the About the plants kingdom.

Sex organs in a flower

The female parts of a flower, known as pistils has the ovaries where eggs are formed pistils in the thick, short stalk in the middle of the flower the male parts of the flower know stamens make pollen steams are the thin stalk around it. About the plants kingdom.

Self-pollination and cross pollination

Self-pollination happens in flowers that have both male and female parts in them. The pollen moves from the stamens to the pistil on the same plants but in most flowers. However the pollen must be carried from the stamens of one plants to the pistil of another plant of the same kind. This is known us cross pollination in About the plants kingdom.

Flowers bright and colorful

The pollen of some flowers is scattered around as the wind blows. in the case of other flowers, insect, light bees and butterflies, or birds and parts help them scatter their pollen around. The bright color attract the insect to the flower. Us they sip the nectar from the flower. They pick up pollen from the stamen which they make with them to the next follower they are attract to.

Parts of a flower

Pollen is made in the 'anthers' on top of the stamens, the male parts of the flower. The female parts or pistil is topped by a sticky 'stigma' which traps the pollen. A long tube or 'style' takes it down to the ovary where it meets the eggs to create the seeds.

Seed spreaders

The wind spreads some seeds in feathery seeds cases. But many seed are scattered by insets, birds and other animals. Birds eat fruits, digest the flesh, while the hard seed passes through the birds, ready for germination.

Fruits vs seeds

Fruits are formed from the ovary of the flower. The seeds are the hard parts found inside the fruit. -berries and other juicy fruits are known as 'true fruits 'as they are formed from the ovaries of the flower. Only the core of the apples and pears is formed from the ovaries so, these are known as " false fruits ". plums and cherries are known as drupes " because there are no pips and a hard shell holds the seedd in it.

Germination and growth: from seed to plant

Every plant starts, that is germinates, from a seeds. All Seeds have all the food needed for germination (to grow into a plant) inside them. Germination begins with just one single root or radicle growing in the soil, and one single green shoot or plume growing towards the sun. slowly the seed leaves, the first leaves of the plant come out. After that, the main stem appears and that true leaves come out.

Vegetables and fruits

Vegetables like turnips, potatoes and carrots are plants roots. But peas, beans and other "language" are fruits, as their seeds are the peas and beans in side the pod.

Date palm

The date palm is a seat, sticky fruits that looks like a plum. However, its stone is the seeds itself and is not like the seed container of the plum stone. So the date isn’t a drupe.

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