Morphology Of Flowering Plants

Amia is a main source of vitamin C. This plant has various medicinal uses. This is cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries and it is commonly known as ''Indian goose berry''. Emblica officinalis is the botanical name of amia and it belongs to family Euphorbiaceae.

Berry type of simple succulent fruits the pericarp divided into three layers-a thin delicate outer epicarp, a soft middle mesocarp and an inner layer known as endocarp. Both endocarp and mesocarp are fleshy. The slippery oval, orange coloured seeds attached by stalks to the placenta, e.g., tomato, brinjal.

Helio mens sun: so heliophytes is a plant that live in full exposure to sunlight.