Great Plant Escape - Nonflowering plants (2024)

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Great Plant Escape - Nonflowering plants? ›

Plants such as ferns and mosses are called nonflowering plants and produce spores instead of seeds. There is also another group called the Fungi, that include mushrooms, and these also reproduce by spores.

Non-flowering plants mostly fall into one of these groups: ferns, liverworts, mosses, hornworts, whisk ferns, club mosses, horsetails, conifers, cycads, and ginkgo.

Non-flowering plants include ferns, clubmosses, horsetails, mosses, lichens, and fungi. These are spore-producing plants, a major feature distinguishing them from the seed-producing flowering plants.

Non-flowering plants include mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycophytes and ferns and reproduce by spores.

Not every plant grows from a seed. Some plants, like ferns and mosses, grow from spores. Other plants use asexual vegetative reproduction and grow new plants from rhizomes or tubers. We can also use techniques like grafting or take cuttings to make new plants.

Non-flowering plants mostly fall into one of these groups: ferns, liverworts, mosses, hornworts, whisk ferns, club mosses, horsetails, conifers, cycads, and ginkgo.

Non-flowering plants do not produce seeds, fruits or flowers. They usually reproduce through spores. They include the cryptogams and the gymnosperms.

The titan arum is a flowering plant, native to Indonesia's island of Sumatra. The plant's full bloom only once every seven to ten years. This rare event only lasts 24 to 36 hours. Generally, the flower will open mid-afternoon and stay open all through the night and into the next morning.

Which plant has seeds but no flowers and fruits? ›

Gymnosperms are seed-producing plants but they do not bear flowers. Phanerogams consist of both angiosperms and gymnosperms.

Gymnosperm seeds are usually formed in unisexual cones, known as strobili, and the plants lack fruits and flowers. Both groups use pollen to facilitate fertilization, though angiosperms have an incredible diversity of pollination strategies that are not found among the gymnosperms.

The Aloe vera plant has an inflorescence in the form of a simple or compound cluster, capable of containing 100–200 hermaphroditic flowers, which are arranged helically on an erect leaking of approximately 90–100 cm in length that sprouts through the center of the plant.

Pine trees are gymnosperms. Flowering plants are angiosperms. Pine trees and other gymnosperms do not have flowers or fruits in the botanical sense. They do have seeds, which are found in their cones.

Bananas, figs, coconut, grapes, and pineapple are the five fruits that have no seeds. Seedless fruits are the ones that do not need seeds to grow. They also do not contain any seeds or at least, mature seeds. Other examples of seedless fruits include oranges, limes, lemons, watermelons, etc.

Bryophytes. Bryophytes have no roots, leaves or stems. Moss and liverworts belong to this group.

The exotic fruit actually comes from a flowering plant. Pineapple plants can grow to approximately two meters tall and one meter wide and, like their skin, are often quite prickly. Interestingly, pineapple plants grow from the leafy tops of the fruit. Simply cut the crown off the top of the fruit and place it in soil.

Cacti are flowering plants that produce seeds. They are able to bloom every year, but they will produce an abundance of flowers in response to heavy rains. Flowers differ in appearance and scent to attract specific pollinators, such as insects and bats. Cacti are slow growers and can live for many years.

Cabbages do produce flower heads (usually the second year of growth), which produce small fruits, which contain their seeds.

Onion bulb is a modified stem because it has a large number of fleshy scale leaves, and onions are flowering plants. They belong to the monocot family Liliaceae.