Saturday, May 22, 2010

What is the fruit of a tulip?

my daughter has to do a model/diagram of a flower showing its seed,stem,leaves,flower and fruit. I am science dumb and can not for the life of me remember what part is the fruit

What is the fruit of a tulip?
The fruit of Tulip is a dry capsule containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds.


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Reply:Rocketman got it right, the ovary is at the base of he flower,a nd the fruit form arond the ovary.





In the tulip, the fruit is a oblong pod wih 5 rows of seeds. Tulips are no typically propagated by seeds, as they will not yield a predictable color. Instead, the bulbs are used to propagate the plant asexually (without sex) meaning the bulbs are essenially clones of the mother plant.
Reply:The 'fruit' would be that part of the tulip flower that encases the seeds. It really isn't a fruit, but I suppose if I were to call it anything, that would be it. Good luck
Reply:A fruit is a ripened overy, so on a tulip it is at the base of the flower
Reply:The only thing I can think of is the bulb but I wouldn't like to eat it
Reply:Tulip (Tulipa) is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. They are native to southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran (where the flower is suggested on the nation's flag) east to northeast China and Japan. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan.





They are perennial bulbous plants growing to 10-70 cm tall, with a small number of strap-shaped, waxy-textured, usually glaucous green leaves and large flowers with six tepals. The fruit is a dry capsule containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds.


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