Flower & Fruit Vocabulary

Edit Answers
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152
Across
  1. 3. swollen end of peduncle or pedicel
  2. 5. magnoliopsida
  3. 7. derived from several individual flowers in inflorescence
  4. 8. embryonic shoot
  5. 11. sticky top of pistil where pollen lands
  6. 13. cotyledons do not emerge above ground
  7. 16. seed attached to hard thick pericarp with bracts
  8. 21. very long and thin fruit splits along two sides with seeds on central partition
  9. 22. do not split at maturity
  10. 24. egg
  11. 26. single seed enclosed by stony endocarp and mesocarp fleshy
  12. 27. whorl of petals
  13. 28. pericarp tightly united to seed
  14. 29. middle area of fruit
  15. 31. stem above cotyledon
  16. 33. skin of fruit
  17. 34. dry fruit from at least two carpels that splits
  18. 37. calyx and corolla appear attached at top of ovary
  19. 42. grain that breaks into one seeded segments
  20. 43. life cycle completed over course of multiple years or decades
  21. 44. stalk of stamen
  22. 46. male part of flower
  23. 47. collectively all the regions of a fruit
  24. 49. fruit splits along two sides
  25. 51. embryonic root
  26. 52. life cycle completed in single season
Down
  1. 1. fruit splits along one side
  2. 2. stem below cotyledon
  3. 4. matured ovary and accessory parts with seeds inside
  4. 6. life cycle completed over two seasons
  5. 9. inner boundary around seeds
  6. 10. derived from single flower with several pistils
  7. 12. liliopsida
  8. 14. artificially breaking seed dormancy
  9. 15. berry with leathery rind with oils
  10. 17. whorl of sepals
  11. 18. stalk of flower that attaches it to plant
  12. 19. no dormancy period before fruit develops
  13. 20. stalk of flower that is part of multiple flowers attached to single point on plant
  14. 21. calyx and corolla attached at base of flower
  15. 23. produces ovules and seeds
  16. 25. female part of flower
  17. 30. berry with thick rind
  18. 32. modified leaf at base of flower normally green
  19. 35. cotyledons emerge above ground
  20. 36. flesh comes from flower tube or receptacle growing around ovary
  21. 38. base of seed attached to pericarp
  22. 39. grain with pericarp extended as wings
  23. 40. thin skin and soft pericarp
  24. 41. short and wide fruit splits along two sides with seeds attached to central partition
  25. 42. stalk of pistil
  26. 45. split at maturity
  27. 48. calyx and corolla
  28. 50. modified leaf that often is colored to attract pollinators