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Morphology Of Flowering Plants

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Placentation in tomato and lemon is

  • parietal

  • free central

  • marginal

  • axile

Solution

D.

axile

Lemon or Citrus (Family-Rutaceae), tomato or Lycopersicon sp. (Family-Solanaceae), China rose or Hibiscus (Family Malvaceae) etc. have axile placentation. It occurs in multi carpellary, syncarpous ovary. Inward growth of margins of carpels forms a multi carpellary condition which contains an axis in the centre. Placentae arise from this central axis which bear ovules. 

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