Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Is there any significance of a flower that has a certain number of petals, sepals, or anthers?

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Is there any significance of a flower that has a certain number of petals, sepals, or anthers?
Yes there is a great deal of significance to it . let us look at it =





1 ) Dicot flowers have sepals and petals either 5 or 4 in number or in their multiple .





Monocots have them in 3 or multiple of three.





read more about these plants on the links below by clicking on them ===


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicotyledon


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocotyled...





2 ) Presence of free sepals ; petals ; stamens and carpels is a primitive character and found in the most primitive flowering families such as Magnoliaceae ; Annonaceae.





United or fused floral parts mentioned above is considered to be an advance character and found in advanced families ( There are many ) Asteraceae is one of them.





I do not know what more you expect besides this . Othewise I would have continued .





From = A botanist .


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