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Its The Job
Can you eat these? Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, maple leaf, Chinese white cabbage, oak leaf
Leaf
Leaves are the food factories of a plant. They take in water and carbon dioxide, and use sunlight to make sugar for the plant to "eat." We call this process photosynthesismaking things with light. Roots are usually underground. They soak up water and minerals from the soil and send them up through the stem to the rest of the plant.
Root
Carrots, onions, turnips, beets, parsnips, radish
Stem
Stems hold up the plant, and they have many tubes that carry water up from the roots and sugar down from the leaves. Stems are like the plant's pipes.
Asparagus, rhubarb, celery, chives, bamboo shoots
Flower
Flowers are designed to make fruits. Insects and birds travel from flower to flower and leave pollen behind. The pollen travels deep into the flower and meets an The egg. fertilized egg then forms a fruit.
Broccoli, cauliflower, pansies, squash blossoms and mushrooms. (some flowers taste as good as they look!) Tomatoes, bananas, golden raisins, cucumbers, summer squash, melons, apples, mandarin oranges
Fruit
If they are fertilized, flowers turn into fruits. You can always tell a fruit, because it contains seeds. So anything with seeds including lots of stuff we usually call vegetablesare actually fruits. Do your friends know how to tell a fruit from a vegetable? Fruits have seeds so plants...