. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. 25 bright-colored kind that attract bees, butterflies and other beauty lovers. They are, on the other hand; of the inconspicuous type that depend on the wind for fertilization and do not attract insects for the work of pollen bearing. Most common flowers are perfect and have in the one flower all the essential organs for fertilization. An apple blossom is a good example of this type of flower. Pecan blos- soms are not perfect, but belong to that peculiar class of inflorescence. Fig. 13.
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. 25 bright-colored kind that attract bees, butterflies and other beauty lovers. They are, on the other hand; of the inconspicuous type that depend on the wind for fertilization and do not attract insects for the work of pollen bearing. Most common flowers are perfect and have in the one flower all the essential organs for fertilization. An apple blossom is a good example of this type of flower. Pecan blos- soms are not perfect, but belong to that peculiar class of inflorescence. Fig. 13.—Branch Showing Pistillate Flowers, Which Later Become Nuts. (Photo by S. B. Shaw.) known to botanists as monoecious; that is, having the male and female organs in different flowers on the same tree. The staminate or male flowers are in the form of long tassel-like catkins. These appear along the sides of the twigs of last year's growth and push out in spring, before the pistillate or female blossoms are evident. See Fig. 12. This fact gives rise to the popular but erroneous impression that pecan trees bloom twice a year. The pistillate or female blos- soms are on the end of the fresh, new growth of the present Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original North Carolina. Dept. of Agriculture. Raleigh : State Board of Agriculture
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