Seeds & Bulbs

Many plants start with seeds.

Seeds form inside of the blossom of a plant. When pollen of one flower touches another of the same kind the seeds start to grow. Pollen represents a yellow powder that contains inside of the flower.

Some insects, for example bees take the pollen from one flower to another. When the blossom dies, the seeds sill grows inside the plant’s fruit. The seeds are diffused in one of the possible ways and when they get into the ground, a new plant start growing. Some plants exchange pollen with wind. Pollen may be transmitted by birds, insects and animals.

People also purchase seeds in a package and put then in soil in their garden. When seeds begin to grow, they are usually called seedlings. Some plants starts as bulbs. Bulbs are similar to onions. In fall the bulb begins to grow under the ground. In spring, green stems begin to poke through the top of the bulb. It becomes bigger and bigger, then the leaves start to show.

Plant stem grows. The top bud of the stem is closed tight. As the temperature gets higher, the bud starts to open up and little by little the flower appears. As ordinary plants do not move from place to place, they use birds, animals and the wind to scatter their seeds.

Seeds are presented in a great variety of sizes, from tiny blooms seeds to big size seeds and pine cones. Many plants and flowers start from bulbs. The parent plant generates buds or bulbs that are scattered and give birth to a new plant.

A bulb is a short stem with meaty leaves or leaf bases. The leaves have several functions; one of them is food storage organs. A bulb’s bases leaves usually do not maintain leaves, but contain food reserves to facilitate the plant to survive in changing weather conditions. The leaf bases is like a scale, it also intersects and circles the central part of the bulb. Roots crop up from the underside of the base and new stems and leaves from the upper side.