Flowers

Flowers

Of or realting to the reproductive part of a flowering plant. The flower facilitates the unification of sperm and eggs. Also, flowers are used by humans as decoration, romance, ritual, religion, medicine, and food source.

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mycorrhizae

Plants; Flowers

Symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots or rhizoids of a plant.

node

Biology; Flowers

The region of a stem between two internodes, where there is branching of the vascular tissue into leaves or other appendages.

ovary

Biology; Flowers

In flowering plants, the part of the flower which encloses the ovules. When the ovary matures, it becomes the fruit.

ovule

Plants; Flowers

In seed plants, the structure which gives rise to the seed.

paleoherb

Plants; Flowers

Any member of a group of basal flowering herbs which may be the closest relatives of the monocots. They include the water lilies, Piperales, and Aristolochiales.