Plant fruits and seeds are many things to many habits and organisms. Seeds inside fruits are a hope that flowering plants ...

Nandina leaves, Japanese maple leaves, heuchera foliage, poppy and larkspur seed pods, hellebore flowers, birch bark, and maple "helicopter" seeds are all materials that he has collected.

Black maple’s bottom two lobes are so much less prominent than sugar maple that it often looks like 3 main lobes. Additionally, black maple leaves droop on the sides, almost like they are starting to ...

Maple fruits are also achenes but they have samara, a pair of connected, winged seeds (Getty Images) Gunter says while it remains a mystery as to what evolutionary force caused strawberries to develop ...

Most trees can be easily identified by inspecting their leaves, seed pods, flowers, bark, ... The acorn of an oak tree, for example, is a seed—but completely different from a maple's samara.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew Dickerson, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) When wind or other ...