- Alternate meanings: See Blossom (disambiguation)
Blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees (Genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely but for a short period of time in spring. A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also In Botany, a drupe is a Fruit in which an outer fleshy part ( Exocarp, or skin and Mesocarp, or flesh surrounds a shell (the pit A fruit tree is a Tree bearing Fruit &mdash the structures formed by the ripened ovary of a Flower containing one or more Seeds. Prunus is a Genus of Trees and Shrubs including the Plums cherries, Peaches Apricots and Blossoms are either pink or white depending on the species or variety. Nectarine blossoms, peach blossoms, most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink. This article is about the Cherry berry also classified as fruit for the ornamental tree See Cherry Blossom. The Almond ( Prunus dulcis, syn Prunus amygdalus Batsch Amygdalus communis L Plum blossoms, apple blossoms, some cherry blossoms, and most almond blossoms are white. A plum or gage is a stone fruit Tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The apple is the pomaceous Fruit of the apple tree Species Malus domestica in the Rose family Rosaceae.
Blossom is to advertise pollen to bees and initiate cross-pollination necessary for the trees to reproduce by producing fruit.
Blossom trees have a tendency to lose their flower petals in wind blown cascades often covering the surrounding ground in petals. A petal (from Ancient Greek petalon "leaf" "thin plate" regarded as a highly modified leaf is one member or part of the corolla This attribute tends to distinguish blossom trees from other flowering trees.
External links
- Millais' renowned painting 'Apple blossoms' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery
Dictionary
blossom
-noun
- A flower, especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers.
- The state or season of producing such flowers.
-verb
- (intransitive) To have or open into blossoms; to bloom.
- (intransitive) To begin to thrive or flourish.
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