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Fruits

 5-Flower to fruit, Lycopersicon

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These slides show the development of a fruit from a flower in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum).

The ovary enlarges and becomes a fleshy tomato when mature.

Remember "A fruit is the ripened ovary of a flower."

Photos by Ken Robertson from plants in his garden.
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