Sentences with phrase «angiosperms such»
Angiosperms such as oaks and willows accomplish this using a series of centimeters - long, tube - shaped cellular pipes.
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«Tricellular pollen develops rapidly after pollination, and so it would be favored in many of the unique lifestyles of angiosperms that demand rapid reproduction, such as herbs, annuals, and herbaceous aquatics,» Williams notes.
There are an estimated 270,000 known species of angiosperms, or flowering plants, but only about 900 species of gymnosperms, which are nonflowering plants such as conifers, cycads, and ginkgoes.
Thus, while England's native flora was largely scraped away by glaciers, in the Hengduans a variety of plants flourished — including angiosperms, such as the Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae, which originated in the Cretaceous Period.
Living examples of evergreen angiosperms, such as holly and ivy, tend to prefer shade, don't grow very fast and sport dark - colored leaves.
Nearly all edible plant foods however, with the exception of such things as pine nuts and fiddlehead ferns, are derived from members of the vast diversity of flowering plants, the angiosperms.