black cherry (Prunus serotina)
Family- Rosaceae
Flowers
- Inflorescences- terminal racemes
- Gender- monoecious (perfect/hermaphroditic)
- Perigynous-Perigynous flowers have a floral tube (or hypanthium) that wraps around the ovary (half-epigynous)
Perianth
- Calyx symmetry- radial (actinomorphic)
- Corolla symmetry- radial (actinomorphic)
Androecium
Gynoecium
- Ovaries superior (sits above hypanthium),
- 1 pistil per flower,
- Monocarpous 1 carpel per flower
- 1 style per pistil
Extra traits:
Hypanthia present (hypanthium is a fusion of the sepals, petals, and stamens forming a floral tube)
The sequence above was shot over 3 days with one picture taken every 9 minutes using a Canon Digital Rebel tethered to a laptop running the program RemoteCapture 2.7.
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