Please bring your own paper bags for collecting. This examination of fruit and seed properties is designed to complement the local school district's curriculum. Students, through video microscopy, observe monocot and dicot seeds and seedlings and discuss the differences. The children will see various tropical plants, their fruits and correlating seed and fruit products. Students will pot various monocot and dicot seeds to take back to the classroom for observation.
Plants serve the human race in a variety of ways.
Many of the plants that are grown in the Conservatory are of economic or commercial importance. This program shows students the food products and everyday objects that are derived from plants. Students will pot a plant to take home. The rain forests of our planet are in jeopardy. It is estimated that thousands of undiscovered species may be destroyed along with the forests by the year 2050.