By offering edible fruit or vegetables on stalks or branches, many plants provide a meal for animals willing to ingest and transport the seeds inside. Including tree fruits such as bananas and mangoes, the tropical fruit group is native to areas closer to the equator. The pineapple is also a member of this group and produces its fruit on a long stalk in the center of the plant. Kale, spinach and lettuce are all members of the leafy green vegetable group.
These plants grow in a wide range of conditions and are eaten both raw and cooked. While kale and spinach grow from small, delicate stems, leafy green herbs, such as cress, grow on tall stalk-like stems. Several fruit trees, including peach trees, plum trees and apricot trees, belong to the stone fruit group.
The name comes from the large, rock-hard pit at the center of the fruit. These fruits are offered on branches rather than stalks. On some plants, the stalks themselves are edible. Celery and asparagus are vegetables that are eaten stem and all. Celery leaves are also used as an herb.
Another group of fruit that grows on trees, citrus fruits include oranges, grapefruit and lemons. Garth Lerner Explainer. Are all fruits plants? Fruit , the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant , enclosing the seed or seeds. Thus, apricots, bananas, and grapes, as well as bean pods, corn grains, tomatoes, cucumbers, and in their shells acorns and almonds, are all technically fruits.
Cesareo Dia Explainer. What is the easiest fruit to draw? The 7 easiest fruit to draw, might well be the ones that are good for you , think grape, cherry, banana, pear , peach, apple and orange. We think of drawing as an art form and the artist's use of line to make a picture.
Giorgina Todisco Pundit. Is corn a fruit? Whole corn , like you eat on the cob, is considered a vegetable. The corn kernel itself where popcorn comes from is considered a grain. This is why several foods people think of as vegetables are actually fruits , like tomatoes and avocados. So, corn is actually a vegetable, a whole grain, and a fruit.
Cenaida Marmol Pundit. What are the advantages of fruits to flowering plants? The fruits and seeds help the protection and their dispersal. The fruits protect the seeds enclosed in the ovary. The mature seeds retain the capacity of germination for a long period. Yanai Jungermann Pundit. What is the fruit of a plant? Plant Parts - Fruit.
Huberto Mandaduna Pundit. What is the purpose of seeds? Seeds serve several functions for the plants that produce them. Key among these functions are nourishment of the embryo, dispersal to a new location, and dormancy during unfavorable conditions. Badra Lamarti Pundit. What is the point of fruit?
A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, the purpose of which is to promote animals to carry the seeds away from the plant. Marena Daty Teacher. Why do plants have seeds? Why do plants produce seeds? Plants produce many seeds to ensure the continuation of the species. The seed contains the embryo that will later grow into a new plant. Raid Forsythe Teacher. What is a pollinator give an example? Hawthorn shrubs and trees bear lots of bright red berries, which birds can feed on.
Nuts are dry fruits. The dry fruit of a horse chestnut is contained within the walls of its hard shell case. Peas are the seeds of the pea plant. The peas are contained within a pod, which is the fruit of the plant.
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