Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The corolla is gametopetalous, the five petals may be joined forming a tube with 4 or 5 lobes (in the flower called tubulose flower or floret, or two groups of petals joined (in the case of bilabiated flowers, with an upper lip formed by 2 petals and a lower lip formed by 3 petals), or they can present a short tube and the limb prolonged ...
Floral diagram of Anagallis arvensis. [1]: 307 The dot represents the main axis, green structure below is the subtending bract.Calyx (green arcs) consists of five free sepals; corolla (red arcs) consists of five fused petals.
Petals can differ dramatically in different species. The number of petals in a flower may hold clues to a plant's classification. For example, flowers on eudicots (the largest group of dicots) most frequently have four or five petals while flowers on monocots have three or six petals, although there are many exceptions to this rule. [2]
The ancient Greeks, as recorded in Euripides's play The Phoenician Women, placed a crown of flowers on the head of the deceased; [145] they also covered tombs with wreaths and flower petals. Flowers were widely used in ancient Egyptian burials, [146] and the Mexicans to this day use flowers prominently in their Day of the Dead celebrations [147 ...
5-spot flower, leaves, seedpods. Eremalche rotundifolia is an annual plant growing to 8–60 cm tall, with rounded leaves 1.5–6 cm broad with a toothed margin. The flowers are dark-pink to lilac with five overlapping petals, each with a dark red/purple spot near the base. When fully open the petals are slightly in-curved, giving the flower a ...
K5 [C(5) A5] G (5) Floral formula of Anagallis arvensis. [1]: 307 Polysymmetric flower. The perianth consists of 5 free sepals and 5 joined petals, which are fused with androecium. The flower is bisexual, it contains 5 stamens, the pistil is fused of five carpels, and the ovary is inferior.
Three petals usually pointing down or forwards are without markings, elliptic in outline with a narrow claw, 4–14 mm (0.16–0.55 in) long and 1.5–3 mm (0.059–0.118 in) wide. Each flower has 2 long, 2 medium and 1 short fertile stamens topped with anthers with yellow to orange pollen (best checked in the bud), and 5 infertile, glabrous ...
A flower's anatomy, as defined by the presence of a series of organs (sepals, petals, stamens and carpels) positioned according to a given pattern, facilitate sexual reproduction in flowering plants. The flower arises from the activity of three classes of genes, which regulate floral development: [ 8 ]