BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Monocotyledon, Parthenocarpy, Big Pit National Coal Museum
27 Feb 2017
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Vegetables: stems leaves and roots (non reproductive parts of the plant, fruits are made up of the reproductive parts of the plant) There are lots of botanical names but you be tested on them. You can describe a plant with botanical names genus describes species. There are more tropical fruits then temperate fruits. But temperate fruits are more developed for commercial. Tropical (high elevation low temp low near sea level high temp) Grapes: are temperate there are two species (not the two different colours) There are resident fungi in the skin of grapes, and if you crush and leave them they cause the grapes to ferment (yay wine) Now (modern times) people add yeast for fermentation so it"s faster (more commercialized) Olive oil , we pickle them but olives are mostly oil. Ancient grease olive leaf crown is the symbol of the olympics. They are drupes (fleshy with single seed (the pit)) Many temperate fruits are in this family.
