On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:08:21 +0100, Edwin Spector
wrote:

~By an amazing coincidence, I have a sunflower seedling about the same size,
~which has done the same thing. The other five are normal. It's fascinating to
~watch it grow. A colleague tells me that this behaviour is sought after in
~fuschias, because they give prettier (fuller) leaf cover.
~
hmmm interesting... I have several fuchsias with this. Havent' seen it
in much else, though.


--
jane

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In article m, Tim
Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at"@?.? writes
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:16:08 +0100, Steve wrote:

It is tricotyledonous, most flowering plants are bicotyledons and grasses
are monocotyledons. It will probably have a thickened stem and you may get
some odd shaped flowers.

A slight correction, the word is dicot... not bicot...

And it is a taxonomical grouping, not just a description of growth
habit. In otherwords, if a species is a dicotyledon (as the sunflower
is), then it is still a dicotyledon even if the odd aberrant individual
has an extra cotyledon
--
Kay Easton

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"Tim Challenger" "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote in message
s.com...
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:16:08 +0100, Steve wrote:

It is tricotyledonous, most flowering plants are bicotyledons and
grasses
are monocotyledons. It will probably have a thickened stem and you may
get
some odd shaped flowers.

A slight correction, the word is dicot... not bicot...


Ta. I knew someting was wrong as I wrote it, I wasn't even sure of the
spelling of cotyledon, it's been awhile since I have had occasion to use the
word!

"Sue da Nimm" . wrote in message
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"Steve" wrote in message
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"Guy King" wrote in message
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I've got these sunflower seedlings - most of which like the one
in the
bottom of the picture have two cotyledons and paired leaves.
It is tricotyledonous, most flowering plants are bicotyledons and
grasses
are monocotyledons. It will probably have a thickened stem and you
may get
some odd shaped flowers.

I've got this on two of my Shirley tomato seedlings - I'm going to
be
interested to see how it affects fruiting.

I understand that the fruits are much sought after by young males
approaching puberty.

--
ned

In article ,
says...
And it is a taxonomical grouping, not just a description of growth
habit. In otherwords, if a species is a dicotyledon (as the sunflower
is), then it is still a dicotyledon even if the odd aberrant individual
has an extra cotyledon
--
Kay Easton

Cor, hello Kay! Ain't seen you for years. Squid sends her love you and
Amynthas.

I suspected it was a sport - the internal structure of the seeds I've
eaten in the past has always been dicotyledonous.

Wonder if the extra leaf comes from a third structure in the seed or
whether it's from damage during germination. The seed-leaves were fairly
similar and evenly distributed, so my guess is that it was a three-fold
seed. I can't check the rest of the packet 'cos they came from the yoof
centre where the toddlers were planting 'em.