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Fruits

Grown for their fruit.

Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Jagged leaves, yellow flower clusters and fruit that ripens from green to red.
6 stages · 150 days
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Strawberry
Fragaria × ananassa
A low crown of leaves in threes, runners that plant their own clones, and berries that redden from white.
6 stages · 155 days
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Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus
Sprawling vines of deeply lobed leaves, bee-pollinated flowers and a striped melon that is 92% water.
6 stages · 110 days
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Bell pepper
Capsicum annuum
A bushy plant with glossy leaves and nodding white flowers, whose blocky fruit turns from green to red.
7 stages · 140 days
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Grown for their leaves, roots, tubers and pods.

Common bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
Fleshy seed leaves, leaves in threes, self-pollinating flowers and pods that dry to tan.
5 stages · 95 days
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Carrot
Daucus carota subsp. sativus
Feathery leaves above, and below the soil a taproot that swells and turns orange.
5 stages · 100 days
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Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
A rosette of soft leaves that folds into a firm head, and shoots up to flower in the heat.
6 stages · 100 days
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Potato
Solanum tuberosum
Grown from a piece of potato: leafy stems above, and below ground, new potatoes swelling on underground stems.
6 stages · 120 days
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Grown for their blooms and seeds.

Sunflower
Helianthus annuus
A single towering stem, a bud that tracks the sun, and a head of hundreds of florets.
6 stages · 125 days
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Each plant grows on its own timeline. Pick one to watch it grow in 3D, or step through its life stage by stage.

Grown for their fruit.

Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
Jagged leaves, yellow flower clusters and fruit that ripens from green to red.
6 stages · 150 days
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Strawberry
Fragaria × ananassa
A low crown of leaves in threes, runners that plant their own clones, and berries that redden from white.
6 stages · 155 days
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Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus
Sprawling vines of deeply lobed leaves, bee-pollinated flowers and a striped melon that is 92% water.
6 stages · 110 days
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Bell pepper
Capsicum annuum
A bushy plant with glossy leaves and nodding white flowers, whose blocky fruit turns from green to red.
7 stages · 140 days
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Grown for their leaves, roots, tubers and pods.

Common bean
Phaseolus vulgaris
Fleshy seed leaves, leaves in threes, self-pollinating flowers and pods that dry to tan.
5 stages · 95 days
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Carrot
Daucus carota subsp. sativus
Feathery leaves above, and below the soil a taproot that swells and turns orange.
5 stages · 100 days
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Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
A rosette of soft leaves that folds into a firm head, and shoots up to flower in the heat.
6 stages · 100 days
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Potato
Solanum tuberosum
Grown from a piece of potato: leafy stems above, and below ground, new potatoes swelling on underground stems.
6 stages · 120 days
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Grown for their blooms and seeds.

Sunflower
Helianthus annuus
A single towering stem, a bud that tracks the sun, and a head of hundreds of florets.
6 stages · 125 days
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