Passion fruit’s seeds
Want a cool and refreshing thirst quencher on a hot afternoon for the family? Try making the passion fruit & honey mocktail and share more about Plant Reproduction Science concepts with your child at the same time!
It’s easy to make the drink!
Just cut a passion fruit into half, use a spoon to scoop out all the flesh of the fruit including the seeds into a nice clear glass, add honey and cold water (or replace with soda water). Then stir up the mixture and add some mint leaf at the top to perfect the look!
WHERE TO GET THE FRUIT?
Passion Fruit, sour and tart, but it’s health benefits far outweighs the scrunch on our faces when we bite into the raw pulp. The fruit is developed from the passion flower that has a very intriguing look. The passion flower definitely does not look like a typical flower.
Let’s take a closer look at the correlation of the numerous seeds in the fruit that are all edible and the passion flower.
P5 MOE Science Upper Block Syllabus: Plant Reproduction
How did the fruit develop from the flower?
Pollination occurs when the pollen grains are transferred from the anther to the stigma.
Fertilisation then takes place when the male reproductive cells from the pollen grains fuse with the female reproductive cell that is in the ovule within the ovary.
After fertilisation has taken place, the ovary of the flower enlarges and gradually becomes the fruit. The ovules within the ovary become the seeds. The passion fruit has many seeds, meaning that the passion flower’s ovary contains many ovules.
Reproductive parts of a typical flower
Reproductive parts on the passion flower
Now with this theory, does it pick your brain at all the fruits you can think of, and you start wondering if certain fruits also carry the same characteristics as the Passion Fruit. What other fruits can you think of? After this we might all start to look at the different types of fruits that we know differently.
Try out this mini quiz!