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What is
a Flowering Plant?
The ten-penny answer is that it's a plant which during some part of its reproductive cycle produces flowers, and the female portion of these flowers must consist of at least a pistil, inside which reside ovules developing into seeds. If these terms and concepts throw you for a loop, you might want to visit our link dealing with basic flower structure before continuing. Above, our ten-penny definition needs to include the part about pistils and ovules because some plants, such as pine trees and other conifers, produce flower-like reproductive structures which, technically, aren't true flowers. We'll see why later in this section. Ferns, mosses, lichens, and fungi have nothing even looking like flowers. Neither do one-celled microorganisms. The Drummond's Aster pictured on this page (Aster drummondii) just plucked from next to my door and scanned, is clearly a flowering plant because even beginners can tell us that what we see there is a cluster of flowers, therefore it's a flowring plant. However, the subject is much, much, much more complex and interesting than that. I'll bet that right now I could go into your backyard and find some items which you couldn't say for sure whether they are flowers or not. In fact, even the aster flowers in the picture are more curious than they seem. You'll see later, for instance, than the things you probably think are flowers in the picture are actually clusters of flowers. If you want to send flowers, go to:
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