Flower or Cone?

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The Making of a Seed: Cone or Flower?

"The creation of a thousands forests is in one acorn."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Making of a Seed: Cone or Flower?

 

Gymnosperms - vasular, non-flowering, seed plants. photos of cone plants.

Angiosperms - Vascular, Flowering, seed plants. Seeds are born in fruits. Pollinated by birds, insects, mammals, and sometimes wind. After fertilization an endosperm forms, which is a nutritive tissue within the seed that ultimately feeds the developing p

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A Plant's History