Naming individual seeds and fruits from wild plants is not always simple. Specialist literature and comparison collections can offer a solution. Knowing where to begin reading or comparing can save a lot of time. This handbook was written to make the search simpler. It describes, per plant family, the flowering and fruiting, the morphology of the seeds and fruits (paying special attention to fruit types), the methods of propagation (propagules) and the possible occurrence of heterocarpy and seed dimorphism. The book is richly illustrated with colour photographs of blooms, fruit and seeds. For each plant family there is a short ""seed atlas"" that illustrates the variations in seen and fruit forms.