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  • mono single seed leaf veins are paralled

    Diocot 2 seed leafs network of veins

    takes me back to my college days lol

  • Agree with the above, single leaf seed are monocot, such as grasses, double leaf seed are dicot, such as runner beans, which are really obvious when they come out of the seed.

    College science teachers: got to feel sorry for them, tryng to teach hairy arsed arbs and landscapers who just want to be out doors getting dirty and casuing mayhem!

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    What a great forum question:)

     

    I think it's simple. A monocot germinates with just one leaf and dicot with two.

     

    Now, I'm going to check on Google to see if that's right :)

  • I'd go with the above answers.

    Interestingly onions, lillies and tulips are monocots. I did sometimes pay attention in class ;) 

  • no cheching 1st,

    mono, - one leaf from the centre, e.g phormium, kniphofia, agapanthus

    dicotoledn - 2 leafs from central stem e.g buddleya

  • Monocotyledon: single seed leaf, and if you want a group of plants that nearly everyone can identify with look at grasses, both lawn species and border species.

     

    Dicotyledon: two seed leaves, pretty well all of the perennials, trees and shrubs. Don't know if there are any bulb dicots out there, if there are then I haven't grown them yet!

     

    I'd be impressed with anyone who knows the gnetophytes without looking them up!

  • Monocots have parallel leaf veins. Dicots have a net like pattern on their leaves. Monos have a fiborous root system dicots have tap roots.

    Was thinking about this this morning ( :

  • Going back to my rural science lessons close on fifty years ago a monocolyledon seed one was a one part seed and produced narrow leaf plants like grasses and dicolyledon 2 part seed produced broad leafed plants like beans.

    Also if I remember correctly these different seed types were used in the mechanisms for selective weed killers.

    Botany isn't a specialist subject of mine so these answers may be wrong.

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