Sunday 22 February 2015

Botany Links

I have been busy preparing for Lucy's study of types of fruit and thought I would record and share some of the links I found useful:

Parts of the fruit from Elementary Observations

Fruits (although a couple of important omissions but other wise useful)
http://theseedsite.co.uk/fruits.html

Fleshy fruits http://www.botanical-online.com/frutoscarnososangles.htm

Fruit types chart http://www.vplants.org/plants/glossary/plate11.jpg

Dry fruits chart http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/botany/images/p23-2large.gif

More dry fruits http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/pix/dryfruit.jpg

And for when we get to the seeds in the coming weeks - how seeds travel

This botanical field guide is an excellent resource for navigating key aspects of botany: