The fruit contains one, several or many seeds. The seed consists of a membranous or hard covering and inner nucleus. The fruit contains one, several or many seeds.
Particularly great are the differences in the temperature requirements of the various species; that is the principal factor limiting their occurrence and determining the yrs that can be cultivated in a given environment.
On rupturing the seed coat the first root turns downward due to the pull of gravity, thus anchoring the emerging seedling in the soil. The hypocotyl or first stem then grows up towards the soil surface, where it straightens and pulls up the two green cotyledons. These are an important part of the seedling since they contain food reserves for the initial period of growth and also chlorophyll for making new food by means of photosynthesis. The deciduous shrubs of Europe all have two cotyledons that differ in shape from the true leaves.
Discernible below the buds is the leaf scar where the leaf was attached to the twig. Leaf scars vary in size and often have a characteristic shape. The leaf scars of the common elder, red elder, staghorn sumach and bladdernut are quite large. Sometimes the part of the twig below the bud is swollen and this spot is called the peg.
During germination the cotyledons either grow above the ground or remain below the surface, the first instance being termed epigeal and the second hypogeal germination.
Others are common shrubs of southern Europe but in central Europe are to be found only in warm, sheltered situations. In such localities they are often relics from the warmer period following the Ice Age when their area of natural distribution extended farther north, with only those growing in warmer situations surviving when the climate changed again. Examples are the cornclian cherry, barberry, bladder senna, box and traveller's joy. - 15266
Particularly great are the differences in the temperature requirements of the various species; that is the principal factor limiting their occurrence and determining the yrs that can be cultivated in a given environment.
On rupturing the seed coat the first root turns downward due to the pull of gravity, thus anchoring the emerging seedling in the soil. The hypocotyl or first stem then grows up towards the soil surface, where it straightens and pulls up the two green cotyledons. These are an important part of the seedling since they contain food reserves for the initial period of growth and also chlorophyll for making new food by means of photosynthesis. The deciduous shrubs of Europe all have two cotyledons that differ in shape from the true leaves.
Discernible below the buds is the leaf scar where the leaf was attached to the twig. Leaf scars vary in size and often have a characteristic shape. The leaf scars of the common elder, red elder, staghorn sumach and bladdernut are quite large. Sometimes the part of the twig below the bud is swollen and this spot is called the peg.
During germination the cotyledons either grow above the ground or remain below the surface, the first instance being termed epigeal and the second hypogeal germination.
Others are common shrubs of southern Europe but in central Europe are to be found only in warm, sheltered situations. In such localities they are often relics from the warmer period following the Ice Age when their area of natural distribution extended farther north, with only those growing in warmer situations surviving when the climate changed again. Examples are the cornclian cherry, barberry, bladder senna, box and traveller's joy. - 15266
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