Legume Family: Fabaceae or Leguminosea

1. Legume Family: Fabaceae or Leguminosea Different types of legumes: Grain L., Bloom L., Industrial Farmed L. , Fallow l. Some Beans: Green Beans, Black B., Lima B., Lentils, Peas, tamarind, peanuts, chick peas Description: Flowers after fertilization produce fruits that are legumes. How to Grow Beans and Peas: 1. decide how many you want, choose pot, good location, get seeds, prepare ground or get soil, plant the seeds, provide support like a mini fence, water seeds, as soon as the sprouts can reach the twining surface attach them to it, sprouting begins!!! Leaves: alternate and compound(even and odd). They have stipules leaf-like and thorn-like. Different Family Names: Pea Family Bean Family , Pulse Family Flowers: 5 sepals, 5 free petals, 10 stamens, elongated ovary, curved style. Fabaceae-are also entomophilous plants (a.k.a. pollinated by insects), usually 3rd largest plant family of flowering plants 600 genera and 1300 species. These have subfamilies and tribes because the family is so big Parts of a flower: Banner: Upper petal, large and envelops the rest of the petals in the bud Keel: 2 bottom petals are fused together at the apex (the base) forming a boat like structure, produces a symmetrical flower Fabaceae has three subfamilies: Mimosoldeae, Caesalpihloldea, Faboidea Habit from giant trees to herbs. Fruit: Ovary most always develops into a legume Have Indeterminate Florescence which can also be a single flower. I.F. a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. I.F. means the terminal bud keeps growing and forms lateral flowers Legume: simple dry fruit that usually dehisces<-(opens along a seam) on two sides, pod is another name

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