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Mono and dicotyledonous flowering plants – These belong to the group of Angiosperms/Flowering Plants, a large group comprising most of the world’s plant species. Monocotyledonous plants have a single embryonic seed leaf, leaves with parallel veins and flowers with parts in threes; dicotyledonous plants have two embryonic seed leaves and flowers with parts in twos or fives. Cotyledons are the ‘seed leaves’ which provide some food for the developing seed but which develop first above ground and begin photosynthesizing until true leaves develop. All photos taken by Ginger Franklin of the Edinburgh Academy.

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