1. Morphoanatomy of the Flower

13. Desmodium laevigatum

22. Magnolia

25. Poppy

41. cyme

43. Left: Male (staminate) catkin from the white mulberry ( Morus alba ), a fruitless variety commonly planted as a shade tree in southern California. Right: An individual male flower containing four stamens, each with an anther and a filament. At the base of each filament is a fleshy green sepal.

44. Female flowers consist of single pistil tightly enveloped by four inconspicuous sepals. Each carpel or pistil (also referred as a gynoecium) consists of a forked stigma, a short style and a spherical ovary. Each ovary (carpel) becomes a drupelet and the ripened cluster of drupelets (syncarp) is called a multiple fruit. In the aggregate fruit of a blackberry, all the drupelets of the cluster (syncarp) come from a single flower

50. The bizarre Malaysian Amorphophallus paeoniifolius . An enlarged, inflated, flower-bearing spadix protrudes from the vase-shaped spathe. Clusters of yellow male flowers (stamens) can be seen above the whitish stigmas of female flowers (pistils).

52. Other raceme Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) Chinese hat ( Holmskioldia sp. )

57. Quiver tree ( Aloe dichotma ) Gladiolus ( Gladiolus sp. ) Red hot poker ( Kniphofia sp. ) Quiver tree ( Aloe dichotma ) Quiver tree ( Aloe dichotma ) Quiver tree ( Aloe dichotma ) Quiver tree ( Aloe dichotma )

59. Examples: King protea ( Protea cynaroides ) Daisy species

60. Mimosa sp. Pincushions ( Leucospermum sp. )

63. hawthorn Hydrangea corymb (group of flowers displayed as a disc)

64. Difference of corycomb, cyme and umbel

68. Inflorescence Types

72. The End