what kind of fruits do you find in water lily and rose plant? how do these help them to float in water
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Water lily plants also produce a fruit. It looks like a nut or a berry. Inside are seeds. When the fruit opens the seeds sink or float away to produce new plants.
Water lilies provide shade and hiding places for fish and other water animals. Fish, ducks, and other animals eat them, too. Some people grow water lilies in garden ponds.
Rose Plants do bear fruits and they are typically red-to-orange in color, but ranges from dark purple to black in some species. These fruits are called Rose Hips or Rose Haw, and they begin to form after successful pollination of flowers in spring or early summer, and ripen in late summer through autumn. After a rose is pollinated, the petals drop off to reveal the rose fruit, which is called a hip.
Rose hips are actually seed pods, and each one contains dozens of seeds.
Now coming onto the explanation for this phenomena, as we generally do not see Rose Plant fruits. All flowering plants produce some type of structure that contains and protects the seeds.
Fleshy fruit are large and well known… but a botanist calls grain, nut and bean pods fruit because they are the ripened, seed bearing ovary of the plant. Some fruit are dry pods or capsules that on maturing split up and drop out as winged seeds to float away or may shed hooked seeds to hitch rides on fur (animals).Nuts in the rain-forest may float away on water currents.
Roses do produce what a botanist considers a fruit just not a soft fleshy fruit like the apple. The rose has a hip as their fruit that contains the seeds known as achenes.
the fruits of these plants help them gloat on water as they have rounded, variously notched, waxy-coated leaves on long stalks that contain many air spaces and float in quiet freshwater habitats. The stalks arise from thick, fleshy, creeping underwater stems that are buried in the mud. The showy, fragrant, solitary flowers are borne at or above the water surface on long stalks that are attached to the underground stems. Each cuplike flower has a spiral arrangement of its numerous petals.