Gymnosperms

The group of plants that only bear seeds without producing flowers or fruits are called Gymnosperms. Examples Pines, conifers, Ginkgo, Cycas etc. you may wonder if you look at pine trees how that you never see them flowering in any season of the year. But sometimes somewhere during the beginning of the spring when the season becomes warmer and windy you may find that your house and your veranda are all full of yellow colored dust particles. Those dusts are the pollen grains of the pine cones i.e. the fruit like body which you may wrongly called as pine fruit. If you look closer into the cone you will find that there’s nothing like fruit at all but whorl and whorls of dead hardened special leaves that has under it, the pollen.

Gymnospermic plants differ from angiospermic plants mainly in the formation of flowers and seeds. While angiosperms are flower, fruit and seed bearing plants the Gymnosperms are seed bearing plants only. Flowers and fruits are absent in gymnospermic plants.