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Where is food stored in the seeds of Asteraceae plants?
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Asteraceae
The flowering head of a sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is formed of yellow, petal-like ray flowers and a brown center of minute disk flowers.
In plants belonging to the Asteraceae family, the seeds contain virtually no endosperm. Instead, their reserve food is stored primarily within the two cotyledons (seed leaves) of the embryo.1