Flowers
A flower is a part of the plants
called angiosperms that holds the plant's reproductive organs. They are formed
from buds. The flower is attached to the tip of a stem at a point called the
receptacle.
There are four basic flower parts.
They are, going from the outside of the flower to the inside
Sepals: A group of leafy like parts
at the base of the flower altogether called the calyx.
Petals: The colorful parts of the
flower arranged within the sepals - altogether called the corolla.
Stamens: The male part of the flower
within the petals or corolla. They contain sacs holding pollen, the male sex
cells and are called anther sacs.
Carpels: The female part of the flower
at its very center altogether called the ovary and also the pistil. At the bottom
of the pistil are the eggs or ovules which are the female sex cells. When these
tiny ovules become fertilzed with pollen they form seeds. The ovary then develops
into fruit.
The number of flower parts differs
from flower group to flower group and is but one of the ways to tell the different
plants apart. In the monocots, or plants whose seeds have one seed leaf, the
parts tend to come in groups of threes. In dicots or plants with seeds with
more than one seed leaf, the parts tend to come in twos or fours or five.
Flowers can be without stamens, or
without carpels or can have both.
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