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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.

What is the biggest threat we must prevent when introducing new plants

The prefixes “peri-“, “epi-” and “hypo-” mean (respectively):

Which of the following terms describes this leaf margin:

Match each fruit type to an examples of it below (respectivelly) – pepo, hesperidium, drupe

The legume and loment are types of fruit found in the Fabaceae. The difference between them is that the legume is constricted between seeds and breaks into separate pieces.

The leaf emergence term describing a fern fiddlehead is: