These slides show the development of a fruit from a flower in Talinum.
A. Note the green superior ovary in the flower. Inside the flower are numerous tiny, white ovules.
B. This is an immature fruit. The ovary has developed into a large round dry fruit. Inside the fruit are the white developing seeds, each attached to the placenta by a funiculus.
C. This is a mature fruit that has split open and is lying on a glass plate. There are 3 curved fruit valves. The placenta shows basal placentation with numerous black seeds still attached, while other seeds have been scattered as the fruit split open.
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