Conifers are non flowering plants that possess special cones to carry out reproduction. When conifers reproduce using these special structures, it is a form of Sexual reproduction.
How do conifers reproduce?
- Conifers are among the oldest living gymnosperms.
- These are a group of cone bearing seed plants.
- Typically, conifers are evergreen trees with needle-like leaves. E.g.: pine trees
- Flowering plants and conifers can reproduce by 2 main ways: sexual reproduction by means of seeds and asexual reproduction by means of separating and rooting part of a plant.
- However, seed production in conifers differs from that in flowering plants as conifers do not have showy petals like flowering plants.
- For sexual reproduction, conifers have male cones which produce pollen and female cones which contain ovules that develop into seeds. Gymnosperms (conifers) do not have their seeds enclosed in a fruit, unlike flowering plants.
- Instead, their seeds lie uncovered between a female cone's scales.
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