The concept that the flower is a modified or a metamorphosed shoot for the purpose of reproduction is an old one and the concept is gradually developed through the past and is accepted at the present by a majority of morphologists.
Linnaeus expressed this idea in his Philosophia Botanica (1751) by the phrase “vegetative metamorphosis”.
This concept that floral leaves were a modification of vegetative leaves was further elaborated by Caspar Wolff and Decandolle.
The ‘ foliar theory’ of the flower of the earlier botanists is held today by many though modified in one form or other by other botanists. That the flower is a modified shoot, is only a figurative expression, and implies that the floral leaves are vegetative leaves and transformed to do a different function of reproduction, in the place of the ordinary function of photosynthesis.
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Wow, that wasn’t taught in our biology class as along as i remember.
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Yes, it was sad in the past people were scandalized when it was first revealed that flowers have something to do with plant sex. LOL. I guess it was during the Victorian era.
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Beautiful explanation..!! ❤️
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