Flower

📖 In short

The flower is the beautiful, colorful part of a plant, where the seeds form that grow into new plants. Flowers vary a lot in color, shape and smell: from roses, tulips and jasmine to the little daisy in the field.

🤩 Did you know?

There are about 250 thousand kinds of flowering plants in the world.
About 165 thousand of them live in tropical regions.
There are about 60 thousand kinds of monocot plants.
The orchid family is one of the flower families with the most kinds.

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🌟 Parts of a flower

A flower has colorful petals that attract insects, green sepals that protect the bud, stamens in the middle that make pollen, and a pistil in the center where the seeds form.

🔍 Why is it beautiful?

Flowers' colors, scent and sweet nectar attract bees, butterflies and birds. When an insect visits a flower, it carries pollen from one flower to another, and seeds form.

💡 Flowers without colors

Some plants don't need insects, like wheat and grass, because the wind carries their pollen. That's why their flowers are small, green and have no smell.

🎯 Amazing flowers

The rafflesia is the biggest flower in the world, and its nasty smell attracts flies. Some flowers open only at night, and some close their petals when the sun goes down.