Watch the seedling of sycamore maple
Watch the seedling of sycamore maple
Time-lapse video of a sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) seedling, filmed over a four-week period.
Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video of a sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) seedling, filmed over a four-week period.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Plants can reproduce asexually in a variety of ways. Learn about bulb, gemma, plantlet, and cutting forms of asexual plant reproduction.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Some of the basic differences between monocotyledons and eudicotyledons.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Characteristic features of liverworts.
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© MinuteEarth (A Britannica Publishing Partner)The perfect absorbers of solar radiation are black objects, yet plants, which depend on efficient mechanisms of absorbing solar radiation, are overwhelmingly green. Speculation of why this is so ranges from random chance to the possibility that the radiation-absorbing properties of chlorophyll are adequate to provide for the energy needs of Earth's plants.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Bryophytes, such as mosses and liverworts, are the most primitive plants.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Chloroplasts play a key role in the process of photosynthesis. Learn about photosynthesis's light reaction in the grana and thylakoid membrane and dark reaction in the stroma.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Plants have evolved into many diverse forms that define and sustain ecosystems.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Some of the different ways plants are pollinated.
