Botany: The Seven Most Common Families of Plants +1, Lesson 8: BONUS: The Rose Family

Although we have covered the seven most common families, which was our goal, but I couldn't leave our summer botany study without a look at the Rose Family because this family contains more than 3,000 species! So, consider this a bonus eighth family to study.



Plums are also a subfamily of the Rose family and their branch (pardon the pun) includes plums, peaches, nectarines, cherries and apricots. All of the fruits in the Plum branch have a seam down the side and a hard pit within.
Apples also are a subfamily of the Rose Family and includes apples, pears and many berries. We have studied strawberries in the past.
The fruit from apples and pears form beneath the flowers. The five pointed star at the base of these fruits is formed by the sepals that used to be around the blossom.
