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| a flower with sepals, petals, stamen, and pistil. An incomplete flower lacks one or more of these parts. |
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| growth or flowering that proceeds in the growing season and then stops (e.g., processing tomatoes). |
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| staminate (male) flowers and pistillate (female) flowers borne on separate plants. |
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| specialized leaves adapted for sexual reproduction. |
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| fertilized portion of a flower where seeds are borne. |
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| a flower lacking either stamens or pistils. |
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| growth or flowering that is not terminated (e.g., fresh market tomatoes). |
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| an arrangement of flowers. |
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| stamens and pistils on the same plant. |
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| bearing part of a flower. At maturity, the ovary becomes the fruit. Important in plant classification is the position of the ovary relative to the sepals, petals, and stamen. A superior ovary is attached to the receptacle (thickened part of a stem from which the flower grow) above the attachment of other floral parts. An inferior ovary is positioned below the attachment of other floral parts. Half-inferior is in-between. |
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| a flower with both stamen and a pistil. |
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| Floral leaves inward of sepals. Collectively they form the corolla. |
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| female part of the flower containing the ovary. It consists of a stigma, which receives pollen, a style, which connect the stigma and ovary, and the ovary. A pistil can be simple (one unit called a carpel) or compound (more than one carpel); for example, a cherry has one carpel while there are multiple carpels in apples and tomatoes). |
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| leaf-like scales that encircle the other flower parts. Collectively they form the calyx. |
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| pollen-bearing flower part consisting of a filament (small stem) and anther, which bears the pollen (male sex cell). |
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