Life Cycle of Apples
Science
The Life Cycle of Apples
Did you know that apples start their lives as flowers? Really? In the spring, the apple tree blooms with white flowers. The flowers must get pollen from another apple tree to make scenes down in the center of the flower. After the flower's petals fall off, it closes up. And you can see the beginning of a tiny Apple. The apples grow all through the summer. And in the fall, they're ripe.
Here's an apple from that tree. And we know it's inside it. Yes. And what can these seeds do? Well, if it's the right temperature, and there's enough white air and water, the tiny plant inside the seed might germinate. Then become a seedling as it grows out of the ground. Right. And after many years of growing, it becomes an adult plant that gets flowers. The flowers then get pollinated, make seeds and grow apples around them. And with those seeds, the life cycle can happen again. Does the apple tree die after it's made the apples? No. Some apple trees keep growing new apples for as long as 100 years. That's different from the bean pumpkin or sunflower plant. They dry up and die after their fruit is ripe. To have plants again the next year, new seeds have to grow.
Do all plants make seeds with flowers? Well, most plants in the world have flowers and make seeds in them, but let's review the life cycle of an apple. First, plant the apple seeds. The seed grows into a tree. Apple blossoms grow. Apples grow on the tree.