Dicotyledonous Plants

Separable SOMSO plant models - an ever expanding collection. Nearly every botanical SOMSO model has been developed in cooperation with Prof. Dr. W. Weber.

BoS 15/33
Fruit of the Cacao Tree

Theobroma cacao.

Naturzal size. Made of SOMSO-Plast®. According to Prof. Dr. W. Weber. Dismantable in 7 parts.
Flowers and fruits develop all the year round on the leafless trunk or strong offshoot branches (cauliflory). In each of the fruit compartments of the five-compartment fruit knot on the axial placenta there are two rows of seeds. The fruit is a dry bean with a fibrous, firm pericarp. Upon ripening the bean is embedded in a pink mucilaginous light coloured pulp on the pod wall. The removable contents of the pod can be seen in five double rows of beans. The thin seed coat encompasses the shoot with the two storage cotyledons. Two of the seeds can be removed. The one (a) is cut lengthwise and shows the shoot with the folded cotyledons, the other (b) is cut crosswise and also enables the cross cut cotyledons to be seen.

BOTANICAL MODELS AND BOTANY TEACHING AIDS:

Fungi Models edible

Fungi Models poisonous

Fungi Models inedible

Plant Morphology

Dicotyledonous Plants

Cryptogams

Monocotyledonous Plants

Fertilization and Germination

Plant Cell