What are Dicotyledons

Dicotyledons

 
Dicotyledons are one of two basic classes of flowering plants. The other is monocotyledons.
 

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• Dicots are plants that sprout two leaves from their seeds.
• There are about 175,000 dicots – over three – quarter of all flowering plants.
• Dicots include most garden plants, shrubs and trees as well as flowers such as magnolias, roses, geraniums and hollyhocks.
• Dicots grow slowly and at least 50% have woody stems.
• The flowers of dicots have sets of four or five petals.
• Most dicots have branching stems and a single main root called a taproot.
• The leaves of dicots usually have a network of veins rather than parallel viens.
• Dicots usually have a later of ever-growing cells near the outside of the stems called the cambium.

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