In Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes flowers as being “a platform of petals surrounding the ‘male’ and ‘female’ parts” (202). Indeed, flowers play a fundamental role in plant reproduction and pollination. As an abundantly diverse species, they can be found in various habitats ranging from the Mojave Desert to the Everglades. Overall, a single flower, as beautiful and common as it may be, has the ability to lure insects, produce seeds, and ultimately facilitate new plant life.
Flowers —also considered as blooms or blossoms— are the reproductive system of angiosperms: plants that produce seeds. (U. 2002). These conspicuous plant parts consist of three major components the perianth, the androecium, and the gynoecium. The perianth or the floral
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Flowers that have all of their floral parts: sepals, petals, stamen, and pistil are known as complete flowers. Subsequently flowers which lack one or more of their parts are known as incomplete flowers. In the cases involving symmetry, a flower is considered regular if its whorls are symmetrical and irregular if it is unsymmetrical. According to their sexes, a plant is considered perfect if it has both the male and female reproductive system and imperfect if it only has one reproductive system. Lastly if a flower has numerous sepals, petals, stamens and pistils, it is considered as simple. A compound flower is thus a flower that has a more reduced number of each floral organ.
According to The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, flowers, regardless of their diversity, all have a sole function; to reproduce (2017). There are two main organs that are involved in reproduction: the stamens and pistils. The stamen has spore cases (microsporangia) in which numerous microspores (potential pollen grains) can be developed. Fertilization can only occur through pollination; when the pollen grains from the anther is transferred to the stigma of a pistil. The two main types of pollination are self pollination and cross pollination. Self pollination also referred to as autogamy, is when a flower can fertilize itself because it has both female and male reproductive system. The most common type of pollination, however, is cross pollination. In cross pollination, a flower is
The Purple Cone Flower’s native land is south eastern Texas in prairies or open fields. However, in years past, this flower has migrated through the southeast all the way up to the south part of Canada (Johnson). It blooms through spring and early autumn, lasting for weeks and dozens shooting up, to the 2-5 foot height. It is abundant in nectar and rich in nutrients, which is the main reason why it is commonly associated with butterflies. This plant is also often used in floral arrangements because of its long stems and pale pallet. The long lasting flower is also one of the most showy perennials and easily grown (Echinachea).
Flowers are used to describe colours such as the ‘roses […] in her cheeks’ or the general appearance of a person. They are an effective comparison in order to express the energy someone emits, as a ‘face […] [blooming] like a sweet flower’ , illustrates immense vitality. The ‘red rose’ is known worldwide as a symbol of romance and beauty. Roses not only look charming, but also have a ‘sweet odour’ , making them flawlessly appealing. However, flowers can also represent evanescence and fragility. Usually the description of blooming plants is supposed to symbolise the immense vigour someone
a. sepals- Sepals are in charge of protecting the flower’s bud before it blooms. It has the qualities of a leave and is usually in
P.282). The flowers were imagery for fertility, and femininity from the past, which was destroyed by an environmental catastrophe, caused by the new hardheaded masculine regime of
The Lotus Flower portrays an example of the aforementioned
The carnations are what could be considered the less important flowers. They represent all the men Daisy flirted with throughout her tour of Europe. There are more of them than the other types of flowers because they are symbolically keeping the roses apart. The carnations keep them apart because Daisy sees all the other men, instead of focusing on just Winterbourne, the other rose.
The phenotypic expression of sex in hemp shows some flexibility. Anomalies in flower development are sometimes observed, such as
“The shockwave petunia series has found its niche as the only small-flowered spreading series from seed. They are one of the earliest to flower in the spreading petunia class, and they yield a proliferation of 1 1/2 - 2" blooms that blanket the mounded plants.” (Harris, 2014).
Flowers represent beauty and fragility. Daisy is described as a gorgeous a gorgeous woman, which can also be assumed form the fact that she has had numerous men try to court her. Her beauty can be described as dainty like a flower because she is also delicate in some ways. On the night of her wedding she is easily shook by receiving a letter and pearls from a past lover. The letter reveals her emotion delicacy once she is clearly disturbed by the letter, by how she must be taken to a cold bath and refuses to let go of the letter until it begins to decompose in the water. Despite her immense beauty, Daisy is still fragile, similar to a flower that is both delicate and a symbol of
This last Spring I planted a flower garden for the first time in my adult life. It was rather small but manageable. In the summer the flowers started to grow and bloom.
First of all, I think I’m a flower because appreciate being different and standing out. Whenever I am learning unfamiliar knowledge, my brain craves for more and more. I constantly go above and beyond on assignments and I’m exceptionally creative. In my mind, that will make my petals shine brighter
Axinaea flower contain a fruit like structure for the bird it looks like a tasty fruit. But it is a spongy like structure which is full of air and when a bird pokes its beak in the seed all the air gets out with the pollen grains and the bird dose not realize this and flies with the pollen stuck to its body and when the insect will fly to another flower the flower will get pollinated.
The flowering plant family Poaceae has unique flowers, so much so that many people don't even realize it has flowers. Describe in your own words what a flower in this family typically looks like. Use the appropriate terminology in your description. the poaceae flower is arranged in a spikelet manner where many bottoms of florets are arranged opposite each other in a row. The florets are flowers encircled two bracts at the bottom which have an outer lemma and an inner
The life cycle of a plant from seed to seed is not that complicated, it consists of a few steps. This all starts with a seed. The first step is for the seed to germinate and turn into a seedling. Once the seedling is formed, it will then grow into an adult plant with petals. These petals will then sprout to flowers, which will produce fruits. The flowers will go to a process of fertilization called pollination, that’s when the pollen is moved from anthers to stigmas. Since the pollen contains sperm and it is passed on to the ovules in the ovary, the sperm moves down to an ovule, which contains eggs. Fertilization then happens when the sperm fuses with the egg in the ovule. The petals and stamens then fall away creating a fruit. These fruits contain seeds, and once the plant has died, the seeds will fall to the ground and repeat this cycle. So to summarize, the seed goes through a process called germination and forms into a seedling, which then grows roots and forms true leaves. This plant continues to grow until flowers are formed. The next step is a process called pollination and fertilization, which then forms a fruit. The fruit will release the seeds and the process repeats.
From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface. (Woolf 1)