From Flower to Fruit by Anne Ophelia Dowden

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By Anne Ophelia Dowden

Anne Ophelia Dowden meticulously describes and images, in full-color
paintings and delightful black-and-white drawings, the superb number of
fruits made by way of flowering plants.
Using specimens she has accrued from world wide, she explains
how fertilization happens, how seeds are produced, and the way flora mature
into culmination. listed below are over one hundred fifty fruit forms—from dry seed pods akin to the
lily and milkweed, with its tufted seeds, to hard-shelled nuts like hickory
and acorn, and the established fleshy culmination of the cherry, blackberry, cucum
ber, and fig.
Ms. Dowden's minutely unique illustrations and lucid, specific textual content exhibit
the elaborate internal procedures of lifestyles in its such a lot elemental obvious shape.

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Of course, both these extremes are very rare, and the seeds of most plants wait a few months or a few for fancy garden seeds is The maximum years. usually a year or two; but those of various wild plants can rest anywhere from five years to SQUASH ninety. This waiting period is called dormancy the seed goes into a kind of sleep. be dead — in fact, its life It , and when dries out and appears at all. Dormancy important device for the survival of seeds. In the is first they have to wait while they find a suitable spot to once there, they must continue plants to start dormant all it growing winter, and begins, to processes slow to the point where they can scarcely be measured ing conditions.

1 ^ / Fruit RED MAPLE ^ — schizocarps their , and they have a very distinctive appearance, with two halves hanging from a central axis. many a great variety of shapes, with ridges or Of this those that multitude of dry do not on grocery fruits have elaborate bristles or — those —perhaps the majority shelves, in will that open and never find a place even though most of them are eaten by mammals. Nevertheless, food for man, and enormous a great many do provide quantities. All grains from the grass family, and plies also fins.

And from the schizocarps of the parsley family our best-known flavorings: caraway, dozens of others. Flower CICELY QUEEN ANNE'S LACE SCHIZOCARPS come many of anise, coriander, and TOMATO FLESHY FRUITS To most of us, "edible fruits" are fleshy fruits — the ones with succulent pericarps, usually sweet and juicy, and tempting to both man and device these animal. Sweet temptation fruits is often the only have for seed dispersal. They are carried about by creatures that want to eat them; sometimes the seeds are discarded as the fruit harmed through the Fleshy as dry pistils, fruits, fruits do.

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