### plant part | blossom | bud:

Winter bud
* are naked, valvate, or imbricate
  - short, pointed, red, and pubescent
* are small and hidden
  - imbricate with three outer scales
  - very minute, hidden, and superposed
* have few scales.

### plant part | blossom:

Catkin
* Most catkins produce fruit
  - small fruit
* Some catkins contain female flowers
  - provide food
* are compact, drooping clusters of tiny flowers
  - inflorescences
  - the oaks' flowering parts
* bearing only staminate florets make up the bulk of the inflorescence.
* become aromatic in late summer and are then harvested.
* form in late winter, nuts in summer.
* have almost no petals, so the pollen sacs on the anthers are exposed to the wind.
* includes anthers
  - carpels
  - leaf shapes
  - ovaries
  - perianths
  - placentas
  - sections
  - stamens
* is an inflorescence
* look like cocoons, but are really the flowers of the aspen tree.

### plant part | blossom | catkin:

Female catkin
* appear in the spring before the leaves are fully expanded.
* are much shorter, erect and woody, and occur on branching side twigs.
* form in the spring.
* have few flowers, while the male catkins are larger and many-flowered.

Female blossom
* are easy to detect because they have tiny pumpkins at their base
  - spot, because they have tiny pumpkins at their base
* resemble beads on a string.

### plant part | blossom:

Floret
* All florets are fertile and develop normal kernels.
* Most florets are pollinated before anthers are extruded
  - contain particles
  - have stamens
* Some florets become seeds
  - can remain attached to spikes long after plants turn brown
  - contain stamens
  - have pistils
  - produce seeds
* are awnless, or with short straight awns
  - carinate and lacking a germination flap
  - most susceptible to infection just before anthesis
* become infected at flowering, and the fungus kills individual spikelets or the entire head.
* grow together in small groups called spikelets, which collectively form inflorescences.
  - carpels
  - leaf shapes

### plant part | blossom | floret:

Ray floret
* Some ray florets have pistils.
* form outer part of the flower and they look like typical petals.

Infected blossom
* abscise prematurely without setting seed.
* appear water-soaked and wilt rapidly before turning dark brown.
* become water-soaked and darker green as bacteria invade new tissues
  - turn dark green or brown
* serve as a source of the fungus for future fruit infections.

Orange blossom
* Some orange blossoms produce honey.
* are often part of the decoration on a wedding cake.
* is of the crown chakra.
+ Orange (fruit), Traditions: Citrus
  * Brides traditionally wear orange blossoms in their hair or carry them in their bouquet at their wedding. Orange blossoms are often part of the decoration on a wedding cake.

Peach blossom
* are carried by Chinese brides
  - from small to medium-sized
+ Peach, Description: Prunus :: Rosaceae :: Fruits
  * Peach blossoms are from small to medium-sized. Its leaves are green and pointy. They usually have glands that make a liquid to attract insects
  - Symbolism
  * In Chinese culture, the peach tree is considered to be the tree of life and peaches are symbols of immortality. Peach blossoms are carried by Chinese brides

### plant part:

Endosperm
* characteristic food storage tissue in monocotyledon seeds.
* is initially free nuclear but eventually becomes entirely cellular
  - present in the seeds
  - specialised storage tissue providing nutrients for the embryo when the seed germinates
  - the most important plant product on Earth for humans
  - used by the zygote
* nutritive tissue meant for the development of the embryo.
* provides food to the growing embryo
  - nourishment for the embryo
* refers to a seed's nutritive tissue, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo.
* thus has an important role within the human diet worldwide.
* varies between species.