Re: cotyledon
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: cotyledon
- From: h*@open.org
- Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:35:25 -0700 (PDT)
Ben:
>Hosta is a monocotyl. The single cotyl is the part atacched to the
>black seed. The first leaf is a true leaf not a cotyl
I thought dicotyledons were called dicots because they had two
cotyledons and monocotyledons were called monocots because they had
one cotyledon. The "leaf like" structure you see emerge from the seed
in monocots is part of the embryo, developed during the formation of
the seed. In monocots the cotyledon looks much more like true leaves
then they do in dicots, but they are still cotyledons because they are
a structure of the embryo.
Joe Halinar
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