A plant which sprouts from seed after a fire has burned through an area. The product of a ripened ovary. The fruit of a flowering plant is not necessarily fleshy or edible, as we expect the term to mean from every day usage. Botanically, a pea pod, pumpkin, and even an unshelled sunflower seed are as much fruits as an apple or rose hip. A group of organisms traditionally included among the plants, but now considered so distinct as to constitute a separate kingdom of their own.
Mushrooms are the best known fungi.
They are not included in the catalog. A general grouping of organisms sharing more common traits than those of a family, and which is the first part of the scientific name. The first letter of the name of the genus is always capitalized. The type of environment in which an organism lives. Examples are woodlands, cliff faces, streamsides, in ponds, grasslands, etc.