Plants

Parts of Plants

Roots

Bark

Trunk

Branch

Leaves

Crown

Parts of the Tree

Flowering Plants Non-flowering plants

Fruit-bearing plants

Gymnosperm Moss Fern Gymnosperm

Moss

Fern

Thallophyta

Parts of a seeds

Hypocotyl

• The hypocotyl (short for "hypocotyledonous stem",

meaning "below seed leaf") is the stem of a germinating seedling, found below the

cotyledons (seed leaves) and above the radicle (root).

Epicotyl

• the epicotyl is the embryonic shoot above the cotyledons. In

most plants the epicotyl will eventually develop into the

leaves of the plant.

Radicle

• the radicle is the first part of a seedling (a growing plant

embryo) to emerge from the seed during the process of

germination

Cotyledon

• A cotyledon is a significant part of the embryo within the seed of

a plant. Upon germination, the cotyledon may become the

embryonic first leaves of a seedling.

Endosperm

• Endosperm is the tissue produced inside the seeds of most flowering plants around the time of fertilization. It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it can also contain oils and protein.

Embryo

• the part of a seed that develops into a plant, consisting (in the mature embryo of a higher plant) of a plumule, a radicle, and one or two cotyledons.

Seed coat

• A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food.

Seed germination

Flowering plants