The Little Garden

By: Mangumpig, NJ

Welcome everyone! as you enter to my beautiful little garden, you can gathered more information about plants. Please bring a journal for you to write the important information that will help you in your studies. Enjoy and have fun!

Plants A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site.

Click this link to see some examples of Plants

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Reproduction in PlantsPlants grow in different parts of the world. They vary in size from simple

algae to giant trees. Plants are living things. So they have the characteristics of living things.

They can make their own food.

They can reproduce.

Click this link to watch the video how plant reproduce.

Parts of the flowerMost plants grow from seeds. A seed contains the embryo of a young plant . If you germinate a seed in the soil, it is likely to grow if it gets enough water, sunlight and air.

Anther

Pistil

Stigma

Filament

Ovule

Sepal

Receptacle

Petal

Pollen Tube

Ovary

Style

Stam

en

The Work Of PollinationPollen grains cannot move by themselves. The pollen is a very fine powder produced by flowers. They can be transferred from the stamen to the pistil.

Pollination Cross-Pollination

Self-Pollination

Fertilization in Flowers

The union of egg cell and a sperm cell is called Fertilization .

The female egg cell and the male egg cell join together

to form a fertilized egg called Zygote.

Parts of the flower that becomes a Fruit

As the fruit develops, different parts of the flower change. The petals and sepals

change as they begin to wilt. They fall off. The ovary grows big and ripens. A ripened

ovary is the Fruit. The fruit surrounds or covers the seed

Part of the flower that becomes SeedThe pollen grain grows a threadlike tube which goes through the style, down to the ovary. As the tube reaches the ovary , it enters on of the ovules. This is the process of fertilization in a flower. The fertilized egg in the ovule develops into Seed.

Pollination results in fertilization inside the flower. As a result, a seed is formed. This seed will germinate into a new plant later on. This process of producing a new plant from a seed by fertilization is called Sexual Reproduction.

Parts of a Seed and the work of each part

A Seed had a young plant inside.

Epicotyl

Radicle

Seed Coat Hypocotyl

Cotyledons

Properties of fruit and seeds that help in Dispersal

Plants need to disperse their seed s away from themselves to stop overcrowding and to create new colonies. Nearly all seeds are produce within ‘fruits ‘. These fruits enables seeds to be dispersed in a variety of ways . Click on a dispersal method to see how this happen.

Wind Bursting

ShakersCatching a lift

Water

Animal Food

Drop & Roll

Growing plants by Asexual ReproductionPlants may be propagated without planting their seeds Propagation is the production of a new plants using some parts of the mother plant. This is called Asexual Reproduction.

Runners

Rhizomes

Bulbs Tubers

Storage Roots

Propagating Plants AsexuallyNew plants can also be propagated

by artificial means. Farmers use them to produce plants. They make the plants grow faster and improve their quality.

Cuttings

Layering

Marcotting

Grafting

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