Flowers and trees is perhaps one of the best combinations. It is safe to say that the world of plants can be splitinto those which produce flowers and those that do not. Flowering plants, the angiosperms, are the most abundant and familiar plants on earth. They occur in habitats from Polar Regions to deserts, and include trees, shrubs, vines, herbs and grasses. The nonflowering plants, gymnosperms, include conifers and cycads which bear cones containing seeds. It is safe to say that all flowering plants produce seeds, but not all seed-producing plants bear flowers.
<h2>Flowers and Trees: Reproductive Structures </h2>
Flowers are the reproductive structures that produce new plants. Trees reproduce by producing flowers, by self pollination or cross- pollination, mostly by insects, animals or wind, and develop fruits bearing seeds. In addition to sexual reproduction, some trees, also naturally reproduce vegetatively by producing basal offshoots, others are prompt to resprout from their trunk when cut; and for many propagation is from woody cuttings. Whatever the case, the tree produces flowers.
<h2>Classification of trees and flowers</h2>
Scientifically classification of trees, on floral characteristics; as flowers represent the most variable and complex organs of a tree. Reason why flowering trees is set in two large groups: monocotyledons which produce a single seed leaf, and a single growing point, parallel veins in their leaves and flower parts in multiples of three. An example is the Thatch Palm (Thrinax radiata), a Florida native.
The other group are the dicotyledons, which produce two seed leafs, hence multiple growing points; as leaves with branching netlike veins and flower parts in groups of four or five. The Locust Berry tree (Byrsonima lucida) is a native Florida dicotyledon.
Furthermore, flowering trees stand out as to whether they bear male and female flowers on the same tree (monoecious), for example, the Crabwood (Gymnanthes lucida) native to Florida. Besides, most trees are monoecious. Or, male and female flowers are borne on separate trees (dioecious), thus there are exclusively male and female trees. For example, Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera) is a dioecious native Florida tree. In cultivating sea grape, a male tree must be growing in proximity to a female. For the pollination to occur on the female flower and the tree to bear fruit.
<h2>Parts of the flower</h2>
