Plant of the Day
Friday 26 August 2022
In the protected warmth of a glasshouse a row of Arachis hypogaea (peanut, monkey nut, earth nut) had been planted. This leguminous plant is grown as an annual for its edible fruit known as the peanut. Once the flower is pollinated the flower stem elongates and pushes the ovary into the ground where the fruit develops.
Jill Raggett















