Lantana Flower Dicot Or Monocot. A wild rose has 5 petals so it is a dicot. If your plant is flowering you can tell if it is a monocot or dicot by the number of petals and other flower parts.
Reticulate venation in a dicot. In most species monocot leaves have parallel arrangement while dicots have reticulate venation of leaves. Dicots have flower parts in multiples of fours or fives like the five-petaled dicot flower pictured to the right.
The Angiosperms are the Flowering Plants and there are around 250000 to 400000 different flower types.
Monocots have flower parts in threes or multiples of threes as shown in the flowers to the left. Both monocots and dicots form different leaves. Monocot flowers are the flowers found in monocot plants. If your plant is flowering you can tell if it is a monocot or dicot by the number of petals and other flower parts.