Chapter 8

Botany with Booth at Florence High School

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Annuals

A plant that completes its entire life cycle in a single growing season.

Biennials

A plant that normally requires two season to complete its life cycle, the first season's growth being strictly vegetative.

Perennials

Plant that continues to live indefinately after flowering

Receptacle

Commonly expanded tip of a peduncle or pedical to which the various parts of a flower are attatched

Peduncle

The stalk of a solitary flower or the main stalk of an inforescence

Whorl

Having three or more leaves or other structures at a node.

Sepals

Unit of the calyx that frequently resembles a reduced leaf; sepals often function in protecting the unopened flower bud.

Petals

Unit of a corrolla; it is usually both flattened and colored

Corolla

Collective term for the petals of a flower.

Stamen

Pollen producing structure of a flower; it consists of an anther and usually also a filament.

Pistil

Female reproductive structure of a flower, composed of one or more carpels and consisting of an ovary, style, and sigma.

Filament

Threadlike body of certain bacteria, algae, and fungi; the stalk portion of a stamen.

Anther

Pollen-bearing part of a stamen

Stigma

Pollen receptive area of a pistal, also the eyespot of certain motile algae

Style

The structure that connects a stigma and an ovary

Ovary

The enlarged basal portion of a pistil that contains an ovule or ovules and usually developes into a fruit

Fruit

A mature ovary usually containing seeds; term also somewhat loosely applied to the reproductive structures of groups of plants other than angiosperms.

Exocarp

Outermost layer of a fruit wall

Endocarp

Intermost layer of a fruitwall

Mesocarp

Middle region of fruit region of the fruit wall that lies between the exocarp and endocarp.

Pericarop

Collective term for all the layers of a fruit wall.

Drupe

A simple fleshy fruit whose singles seed is enclosed within a hard endocarp

Berries

Thin-skinned fruit that usually developes from a compound ovary and commonly contains more than one seed.

Pomes

Simply fresh fruit whose flesh is derived primarily from the receptacle

Aggregate Fruit

A fruit derived from a single flower having several to many pistils

Multiple Fruit

Fruit dervived from several to many individual flowers in a single inflorescent

Dry Fruit

Fruits whose mesocarp is definitely dry at maturity are classified as dry fruit.

Germination

Beginning or resumption of grouwth of a seed or spore.

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