Plants and their ways in South Africa . tachment to the ovary. Some fruits are dry and hard; others are juicy. A dryfruit is frequently miscalled a seed. On the other hand, anypart of the plant that is good to eat is apt to be called a fruit,even to a Potato ! Have you ever seen the fruit of Potato ?You have never eaten it. A. Fruits formed from a Single Flower.—Osteosper-174 Fruits 175 mum forms a circle of seed-like fruits. Each one contains ahard white shining seed. The fruit is borne below the flowerand is indehiscent; that is, it does not open to let out theseed. The fruit of the Composit
Plants and their ways in South Africa . tachment to the ovary. Some fruits are dry and hard; others are juicy. A dryfruit is frequently miscalled a seed. On the other hand, anypart of the plant that is good to eat is apt to be called a fruit,even to a Potato ! Have you ever seen the fruit of Potato ?You have never eaten it. A. Fruits formed from a Single Flower.—Osteosper-174 Fruits 175 mum forms a circle of seed-like fruits. Each one contains ahard white shining seed. The fruit is borne below the flowerand is indehiscent; that is, it does not open to let out theseed. The fruit of the Composite family, to which Osteosper-mum belongs, all have their fruit formed in this way, although,instead of being smooth and shining,it may he woolly or differently marked. A dry one-seeded inferior fruit iscalled a cypsella. Protea and Clematis have also dryindehiscent fruits. The styles of theovaries remain on the ripe fruit, andthe enclosed seed is attached at oneplace, the placenta. A Protea flowerhas but one ovary, but Clematis has a.
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