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Angiosperm Defining Traits: Flower and Fruit

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An angiosperm produces flowers and encloses its seeds inside a fruit, developed from the ovary after fertilization.

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An apple's flesh develops from its ovary wall, enclosing the seeds, unlike a pine seed's exposed spot on a cone scale.

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"Fruit" in this botanical sense includes foods eaten as vegetables, such as tomato or squash, since both develop from a fertilized ovary.