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When you watch a garden flower open, do its petals turn into fruit? At first, the flower is tucked inside a closed bud, protected while it develops. Then the bud opens, its petals spread, and the flower is ready for pollen. On this same garden flower, pollination means pollen reaches its female parts. If that leads to fertilization, seeds begin to form inside the flower's base. The petals do not become fruit. The ovary, the flower's base, grows into fruit around the seeds. As your garden flower's petals fade, dry, and fall, that fruit can keep growing. Without successful pollination and fertilization, the flower fades and drops its petals instead. Even when the bloom looks finished, its base can still be changing. So the petals fall either way; after pollination and fertilization, the ovary can grow into fruit around seeds.