Flowering plants characterised by having two cotyledons (seed leaves); examples include most fruiting and flowering trees, and most annual and perennial flowering plants.

Dicots are plants that are characterized by a two cotyledons (seed leaves) in the seed, netted veins leaves, vascular bundles in a ring, flower parts in fours or fives or multiples of fours or fives, and a vascular cambium with secondary growth and concentric growth rings. DIAGRAMS: PHOTOS: 1-Year Tilia Stem / 2-Year Tilia Stem 3-Year Tilia Stem / 3-Year Tilia Stem / 3-Year Tilia Stem 6-Year Tilia Stem / 6-Year Tilia Stem / 6-Year Tilia Stem Dicot Root / Dicot Root / Dicot Root / Dicot Root Dicot Root

Flowering plants whose embryo has two cotyledons. [AV