Flowering Plants

Flowering Plants are the plants which people tend to notice the most often. The plants in this group produce "true" complex flowers, and include small plants such as daisies and buttercups, as well as big trees such as elm and willow.

They reproduce using seeds, which are created from the joining together of female eggs and male pollen.

The seeds develop inside a protective structure called an ovary, and each seed contains a tiny developing plant, known as an embryo. The ovary is the same name used for the place where eggs in the human female body are stored.

In flowering plants, the ovary develops into a fruit. The fruit helps to spread the seed to new places.

Often, the fruits are colourful and juicy, tempting animals to eat them and so spreading the seed in their waste.

Sometimes, the fruits are able to flick seeds to new ground, as is shown by gorse. The fruit of other plants, like thistle or dandelion, carry the seed along in the breeze.

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