Creating the next generation

Once the flower, whether perfect or female, is fertilized, it begins to metamorphose. While one or more seeds develop within it, the flower changes into a fruit. This photo shows a female maple flower fertilized by the anemophilous (Dissemination under the action of wind.) pollen of a male flower. The flower is right in the midst of changing into the fruit, or double samara, which contains the seeds for the next generation. And so begins a new life cycle.

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