Plant Reproduction in Angiosperms

What are Angiosperms? are some of the most successful and also most diverse plants around. When you think of flowering plants, you may not realize that a lot of plants actually produce flowers. Many grasses for example. Many crops. All plants that produce fruit. Fruit In fact, flowering plants all bear fruit---just maybe not fruit in the sense that you are used to. Not all fruit ---if going by the biological definition---are sweet or even edible. By the biological definition, a fruit develops from the ovary of a plant. Which doesn’t exactly sound that appetizing. Pumpkins, green beans, tomatoes---these all developed from the ovary of a flowering plant. These are all fruits. The term “vegetable” really isn’t used as a true biology definition. A lot of what grocery stores classify to be vegetables are other parts of plants----like leaves (think of lettuce) or stems (think of celery). and sometimes grocery stores just classify vegetables as plant structures that are generally not as...