This is a characteristic of dicotyledonous plants such as beans.
A dicotyledonous plant
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Cotyledon
With a monocotyledon, the seed sprouts to produce one seed leaf. Typically they also have leaves with parallel veins, a lack of secondary growth, and flower parts in multiples of three. With a dicotyledon, the seed sprouts to produce a pair of leaves. Typically they also have leaves with reticulate venation, flower parts in multiples of four or five, pollen with three pores, and the capacity for secondary growth.
The primary leaf, or leaves; sometimes two primary leaves from opposite each other depending on the leaf arrangement on the stem of the plant. This varies from plant to plant. Monocotyledonous plants normally produce a single primary leaf, where are dicotyledonous plants may produce one or two.
A dicotyledon. Indicative of dicots.
Taebernum Montana plant of Apocynaceae
Taebernum montana plant of Apocynaceae
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Cotyledon
lrn to google people! http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/brusselssprouts1.html#5 The small sprouts or buds form heads one to two inches in diameter. They may be picked (or cut) off the stem when they are firm and about one inch in size. The lower sprouts mature first. The lowermost leaves, if they have not been removed already, should be removed when the sprouts are harvested. Harvest sprouts before the leaves yellow.
With a monocotyledon, the seed sprouts to produce one seed leaf. Typically they also have leaves with parallel veins, a lack of secondary growth, and flower parts in multiples of three. With a dicotyledon, the seed sprouts to produce a pair of leaves. Typically they also have leaves with reticulate venation, flower parts in multiples of four or five, pollen with three pores, and the capacity for secondary growth.
The primary leaf, or leaves; sometimes two primary leaves from opposite each other depending on the leaf arrangement on the stem of the plant. This varies from plant to plant. Monocotyledonous plants normally produce a single primary leaf, where are dicotyledonous plants may produce one or two.
The first set of leaves are called cotyledons. A dicot has two and a monocot has only one.
Pitcher plant and Pea plant
Welwitschia mirabilisDiscovered in 1859. The Afrikaans call it the "two-leaves-cannot-die"
it support the leaves