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How many seeds would you expect to find inside a seedpod of an average orchid:

The difference between a silique and silicle is based on the length:width ratio of the fruit

Fern terms are often different from their angiosperm counterparts. Which fern term is equivalent to a petiole:

Which is the difference between a vine and a liana:

Tuberous roots can be propagated by cutting them up into little pieces and planting the pieces.

When a large tree is cut down, new shoots can grow above ground from the part of the trunk that remains. Those shoots are called watersprouts.

The bright colorful part of Bougainvilleas and Poinsettias are the showy flowers.

It is thought that flowers and fruits co-evolved with pollinating and dispersal agents.

Plants in the Euphorbiaceae have unique structures called areoles, which are reduced branches, and contain tiny barbed spines called glochids that lodge in flesh

By looking at the distribution of fossil plants, hypotheses are created about the age of those fossil groups.