Each fruit contains one or more carpels, hollow chambers that protect and nourish the seeds. Slice a tomato in half, for instance, and you'll find carpels. These structures are the defining trait ...

Stamens numerous. Carpels 1 to many. Fruit usually an achene or follicle, rarely a berry or capsule. Contains about 50 genera and 1900 species. Plants usually woody and climbing; leaves opposite or ...

Explore how plant thermogenesis shaped the evolution of flowering plants and pollinators 200 million years ago.

Thermogenesis is a process by which organisms generate internal heat. Although it is usually associated with animals, some ...

While countless types of peony cultivars are produced today, interestingly, there are only 33 officially recognized peony ...

Now, nine days later on an island called Payer, Fay is down on his hands and knees again, squinting, counting petals and carpels, taking photos. He’s got 12 species in his notebook by the time ...

A new study suggests that the ability of some plants to generate heat, known as thermogenesis, has played a key role in ...

This is because the entire fruit is made up of three carpels that have fused to look like one. But why would you need to split a banana into lengths anyway? Perfectly packaged and easy to transport, ...

That is because anthers arrest at early stages of development resulting in the formation of nonfunctional staminodes. In disc flowers, anthers develop fully and form a postgenitally fused structure ...