Dicot flowers have flower parts that occur in fours and fives or their multiples. The number of petals in monocot flowers usually is either three or six. In some cases, the petals might be fused. The number of petals in dicot flowers is four or five or their multiples.

Does a dicot flower have?

Dicots are one of the two main groups of flowering plants; the other is monocots. One major distinction is that dicots have two cotyledon, or embryonic, seed leaves. Monocots have only one. Another is that the flower parts--petals, stamen and so on are in multiples of four or five.

What makes a flower a dicot?

dicotyledon, byname dicot, any member of the flowering plants, or angiosperms, that has a pair of leaves, or cotyledons, in the embryo of the seed. ... Most common garden plants, shrubs and trees, and broad-leafed flowering plants such as magnolias, roses, geraniums, and hollyhocks are dicots.