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Fabaceae

 47-Peanut plant in fruit

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After plants of Arachis hypogea, peanut, have flowered, the pedicel of the flower greatly elongates and curved downward. Soon, the ovary is pushed underground, where the familiar peanut fruits develop.
Photo by D. S. Seigler, University of Illinois.
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