About Tropical Flowers

Flowers are plants that take their primary identity from the size and shape of their blooms. The flower is the reproductive structure of ANGIOSPERMS, or flowering plants. Compared to the reproductive structures of the plant, the flower is unique in several ways. It consists of four kinds of modified leaves, two of which (stamens and pistils) bear POLLEN and SEEDS. Several nonflowering plants also produce also produce pollen and seeds on modified leaves, but in the angiosperms the modified leaf called the pistil forms an ovary that completely encloses the ovule, which becomes th seed. The term angiosperm is derived from the Greek and means “seed in a vessel.”

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