Seed without flowering
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Seed without flowering
- From: D* M* <d*@post.its.mcw.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:44:11 -0600
> Kristl wrote:
>
>>>On rare occasions, plants will bypass their proper flower development & head
>straight into seed production. This happened to me this year with Aster
>alpinus. Reason for this is usually some sort of stress on plant: drought,
>damage, etc....<<
>
>Kristl,
>
>What? I don't understand how an angiosperm can produce seed without
>flowering.
>Do you mean that these plants have the reproductive parts of the flower, but
>that the petals do not develop properly?
>
>--Janis
>
Certain plants do this on a regular basis, such as (at some of) the Violas.
This is called cleistogamy (literally, "hidden sex"). It refers to
pollenation that occurs within an unexpanded flower.
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d*@post.its.mcw.edu
"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all."
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