A peanut flower sends its future pod underground — ChillScroll

A peanut plant with yellow flowers above soil and pale pods developing underground

A peanut flower sends its future pod underground

Peanut flowers open above the soil. After a flower is fertilized, its ovary grows downward on a slender structure called a peg, enters the ground and develops into a peanut pod below the surface.

The yellow flower appears in the sunshine; the peanut quietly finishes growing below.

Source · USDA Agricultural Research Service ↗