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    Post by tinagothic Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:49 am

    What do you know about the flowers. The information with your own drawing of the flower will have an advantage over the rest while choosing the winners. The prizes will be free memberships and V-flags.
    Good luck sunny
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    Post by bube077 Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:03 am

    Dodecatheon
    A few species are grown in gardens for their showy and unique flower ... The flowers are pollinated by bee s, which grab hold of the petals, ...
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    Heterostyly (redirect from Dimorphous flowers)
    Heterostyly is a unique form of polymorphism and herkogamy in flower s. morphological types of flowers, termed morphs, exist in the population. ...
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    Orthosiphon
    Orthosiphon is a popular garden plant because of its unique flower, which is white and bluish with filaments resembling a cat's whiskers. ...
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    Passion flower (redirect from Passion flowers)
    The passion flowers or passion vines (Passiflora) are a genus of about 500 species ... The decorative passion flowers have a unique flower ...
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    Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
    The flowers are large, generally red in the original varieties, and ... judge the many resulting new seedlings and often strikingly unique flowers. ...
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    Pseudanthium
    A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or flower head is a special type of ... Either ray or disk flowers may be absent in some plants: ...
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    Iris laevigata
    Flowers are usually blue, purple or violet and have unique colour patterns including some types with predominantly white flowers with blue ...
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    Flower
    A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom , is the reproductive structure ... The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the ...
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    Pinguicula ramosa (section Flowers)
    It is unique in the genus for having a forked flower stalk. ... Flowers: The 15–90 mm long flower stalks are unique in the genus in being forked ...
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    Barbosella
    Named after João Barbosa Rodrigues , an investigator of Brazil ian orchids, they have single flowers with a unique lip base that works ...
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    Floristry (section Supermarket flowers)
    and filling station s also sell flowers. Floral Design or floral arts ... High Style designs often incorporate unique, exotic or tropical ...
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    Girraween National Park
    Girraween is known for its spectacular flowers, dramatic landscapes and unique wildlife. Bushwalking and rock climbing are the most ...
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    Echizen, Fukui
    Some unique flowers are "nanahon-date" – a flower that branches off into seven directions, "kengai" – a flower whose petals spread out ...
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    Valley of Flowers National Park
    Valley of Flowers National Park is an India n national park , Nestled high in West ... Together they encompass a unique transition zone ...
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    Filarum
    The fertile male flowers of Filarum are unique in that they have hairlike attachment to them. References : Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants ...
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    Asclepiadoideae
    Many new hybrids have been formed due to the unique fertilization method of the flowers. Genera | : Absolmsia Adelostemma Aidomene ...
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    Del Norte County, California
    with heights reaching over 350 | ft | m, scores of unique plants and flowers, dozens of species of coastal birds, rocky, primitive beaches ...
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    Xanthorrhoeaceae
    The spike contains a dense inflorescence with small flowers and ... meristem, which is one of the identifying characteristics unique to Asparagales ...
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    Owasippe Scout Reservation
    which hosts the oak savanna , a rare ecosystem, and the coastal plain marsh , which hosts unique flower and fauna dependent on acidic soils. ...
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    jpg | The Bund Centre - A unique "Flower Crown" - with tourist mascot Image:ShanghaiMixedClassic. jpg | A dissonant stack of different ...
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    Post by billybubble Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:07 am

    Otside at Eco shop street!

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    Post by billybubble Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:33 am

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    A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. The process begins with pollination, is followed by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the inflorescence.

    In addition to serving as the reproductive organs of flowering plants, flowers have long been admired and used by humans, mainly to beautify their environment but also as a source of food.

    Flowering plants usually face selective pressure to optimise the transfer of their pollen, and this is typically reflected in the morphology of the flowers and the behaviour of the plants. Pollen may be transferred between plants via a number of 'vectors'. Some plants make use of abiotic vectors - namely wind (anemophily) or, much less commonly, water (hydrophily). Others use biotic vectors including insects (entomophily), birds (ornithophily), bats (chiropterophily) or other animals. Some plants make use of multiple vectors, but many are highly specialised.

    Cleistogamous flowers are self pollinated, after which they may or may not open. Many Viola and some Salvia species are known to have these types of flowers.

    The flowers of plants that make use of biotic pollen vectors commonly have glands called nectaries that act as an incentive for animals to visit the flower. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent and color. Still other flowers use mimicry to attract pollinators. Some species of orchids, for example, produce flowers resembling female bees in color, shape, and scent. Flowers are also specialized in shape and have an arrangement of the stamens that ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator when it lands in search of its attractant (such as nectar, pollen, or a mate). In pursuing this attractant from many flowers of the same species, the pollinator transfers pollen to the stigmas—arranged with equally pointed precision—of all of the flowers it visits.
    Callistemon citrinus flowers.

    Anemophilous flowers use the wind to move pollen from one flower to the next. Examples include grasses, birch trees, ragweed and maples. They have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy" flowers. Male and female reproductive organs are generally found in separate flowers, the male flowers having a number of long filaments terminating in exposed stamens, and the female flowers having long, feather-like stigmas. Whereas the pollen of animal-pollinated flowers tends to be large-grained, sticky, and rich in protein (another "reward" for pollinators), anemophilous flower pollen is usually small-grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to

    The transition to flowering is one of the major phase changes that a plant makes during its life cycle. The transition must take place at a time that is favorable for fertilization and the formation of seeds, hence ensuring maximal reproductive success. To meet these needs a plant is able to interpret important endogenous and environmental cues such as changes in levels of plant hormones and seasonable temperature and photoperiod changes. Many perennial and most biennial plants require vernalization to flower. The molecular interpretation of these signals is through the transmission of a complex signal known as florigen, which involves a variety of genes, including CONSTANS, FLOWERING LOCUS C and FLOWERING LOCUS T. Florigen is produced in the leaves in reproductively favorable conditions and acts in buds and growing tips to induce a number of different physiological and morphological changes. The first step is the transformation of the vegetative stem primordia into floral primordia. This occurs as biochemical changes take place to change cellular differentiation of leaf, bud and stem tissues into tissue that will grow into the reproductive organs. Growth of the central part of the stem tip stops or flattens out and the sides develop protuberances in a whorled or spiral fashion around the outside of the stem end. These protuberances develop into the sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels. Once this process begins, in most plants, it cannot be reversed and the stems develop flowers, even if the initial start of the flower formation event was dependent of some environmental cue. Once the process begins, even if that cue is removed the stem will continue to develop a flower.

    Organ Development
    The ABC model of flower development.

    The molecular control of floral organ identity determination is fairly well understood. In a simple model, three gene activities interact in a combinatorial manner to determine the developmental identities of the organ primordia within the floral meristem. These gene functions are called A, B and C-gene functions. In the first floral whorl only A-genes are expressed, leading to the formation of sepals. In the second whorl both A- and B-genes are expressed, leading to the formation of petals. In the third whorl, B and C genes interact to form stamens and in the center of the flower C-genes alone give rise to carpels. The model is based upon studies of homeotic mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana and snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus. For example, when there is a loss of B-gene function, mutant flowers are produced with sepals in the first whorl as usual, but also in the second whorl instead of the normal petal formation. In the third whorl the lack of B function but presence of C-function mimics the fourth whorl, leading to the formation of carpels also in the third whorl. See also The ABC Model of Flower Development.

    Most genes central in this model belong to the MADS-box genes and are transcription factors that regulate the expression of the genes specific for each floral organ.

    While land plants have existed for about 425 million years, the first ones reproduced by a simple adaptation of their aquatic counterparts: spores. In the sea, plants -- and some animals -- can simply scatter out genetic clones of themselves to float away and grow elsewhere. This is how early plants reproduced. But plants soon evolved methods of protecting these copies to deal with drying out and other abuse which is even more likely on land than in the sea. The protection became the seed, though it had not yet evolved the flower. Early seed-bearing plants include the ginkgo and conifers. The earliest fossil of a flowering plant, Archaefructus liaoningensis, is dated about 125 million years old. Several groups of extinct gymnosperms, particularly seed ferns, have been proposed as the ancestors of flowering plants but there is no continuous fossil evidence showing exactly how flowers evolved. The apparently sudden appearance of relatively modern flowers in the fossil record posed such a problem for the theory of evolution that it was called an "abominable mystery" by Charles Darwin. Recently discovered angiosperm fossils such as Archaefructus, along with further discoveries of fossil gymnosperms, suggest how angiosperm characteristics may have been acquired in a series of steps.

    Recent DNA analysis (molecular systematics) show that Amborella trichopoda, found on the Pacific island of New Caledonia, is the sister group to the rest of the flowering plants, and morphological studies suggest that it has features which may have been characteristic of the earliest flowering plants.
    Amborella buds

    The general assumption is that the function of flowers, from the start, was to involve other animals in the reproduction process. Pollen can be scattered without bright colors and obvious shapes, which would therefore be a liability, using the plant's resources, unless they provide some other benefit. One proposed reason for the sudden, fully developed appearance of flowers is that they evolved in an isolated setting like an island, or chain of islands, where the plants bearing them were able to develop a highly specialized relationship with some specific animal (a wasp, for example), the way many island species develop today. This symbiotic relationship, with a hypothetical wasp bearing pollen from one plant to another much the way fig wasps do today, could have eventually resulted in both the plant(s) and their partners developing a high degree of specialization. Island genetics is believed to be a common source of speciation, especially when it comes to radical adaptations which seem to have required inferior transitional forms. Note that the wasp example is not incidental; bees, apparently evolved specifically for symbiotic plant relationships, are descended from wasps.

    Likewise, most fruit used in plant reproduction comes from the enlargement of parts of the flower. This fruit is frequently a tool which depends upon animals wishing to eat it, and thus scattering the seeds it contains.

    While many such symbiotic relationships remain too fragile to survive competition with mainland animals and spread, flowers proved to be an unusually effective means of production, spreading (whatever their actual origin) to become the dominant form of land plant life.
    Lomatium parryi, a plant that used to be consumed by early Native Americans

    While there is only hard proof of such flowers existing about 130 million years ago, there is some circumstantial evidence that they did exist up to 250 million years ago. A chemical used by plants to defend their flowers, oleanane, has been detected in fossil plants that old, including gigantopterids, which evolved at that time and bear many of the traits of modern, flowering plants, though they are not known to be flowering plants themselves, because only their stems and prickles have been found preserved in detail; one of the earliest examples of petrification.

    The similarity in leaf and stem structure can be very important, because flowers are genetically just an adaptation of normal leaf and stem components on plants, a combination of genes normally responsible for forming new shoots. The most primitive flowers are thought to have had a variable number of flower parts, often separate from (but in contact with) each other. The flowers would have tended to grow in a spiral pattern, to be bisexual (in plants, this means both male and female parts on the same flower), and to be dominated by the ovary (female part). As flowers grew more advanced, some variations developed parts fused together, with a much more specific number and design, and with either specific sexes per flower or plant, or at least "ovary inferior".

    Flower evolution continues to the present day; modern flowers have been so profoundly influenced by humans that many of them cannot be pollinated in nature. Many modern, domesticated flowers used to be simple weeds, which only sprouted when the ground was disturbed. Some of them tended to grow with human crops, and the prettiest did not get plucked because of their beauty, developing a dependence upon and special adaptation to human affection.

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    Post by chessie123 Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:45 am

    Facts about Flowers.

    The rose is the best-known symbol of beauty and love. Red roses mean I love you. A dozen of them make the ultimate statement on Valentine's Day. A single rose signifies simplicity.

    Women prefer pastel colored roses, men on the other hand prefer red.

    The spice saffron comes from a certain type of crocus.

    Tulip bulbs can be used in place of onions for cooking!!

    The bluebonnet became the Texas state flower in 1901. In 1971, the state legislature, named all lupine species as the official state flower.
    The flower looks like a little bonnet when you look at it closely. After it rains, look for a drop of water in each bonnet or bowl-like petal. As the Texas bluebonnet flower ages, one of the top petals turns purple-red.

    The creamy-white bloom of the magnolia tree was designated the state flower of Louisiana in 1900 because of the abundance of trees throughout the state. Magnolia is an evergreen and the flower is usually fragrant. After the six to twelve petals of the flower have fallen away the large cone shaped fruit of the magnolia is exposed.

    the World's Largest Flower
    The Titan Arum is not only the world's largest flower it is also the world's smelliest.
    This native of the central Sumatran rainforests is known affectionately

    The World's Oldest Flower
    In 2002 scientists in north-east China discovered a fossilised flower that blossomed about 125 million years ago. Called "the mother of all flowers", Archaefructus sinensis resembles the modern water lily

    the World's Smallest Flower
    A bouquet of a dozen Wolffia blooms would comfortably fit on the head of a pin.
    A type of duckweed, Wolffia grows on the surface of ponds and slow moving streams.
    This very minute flowering plant is native to Australia and Malaysia. The plant body is 0.6-0.9 mm long and only 0.2-0.5 mm wide. Not only is it one of the smallest flowering plants on earth, but it also produces one of the smallest fruits.
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    Post by Yhanz Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:02 am

    Rafflesia

    The biggest flower that blooms on plant called Rafflesia.
    It grows on tropical forests. The flower diameter is up to 1 meter.
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    The Rafflesia flower is a parasitic plant that grows on the lowerslopes of mountain ranges. It has a limited distribution and isonly found in certain areas of Southeast Asia. The first Europeansto discover the Rafflesia were Sir Stamford Raffles and Dr JosephArnold in 1816, near the town of Bencoolen (Bengkulu) inSumatra. Not surprisingly, that particular species was named RafflesiaArnoldii.

    The Rafflesia has no specific flowering season. It has no roots,stem or leaves and starts life as a small, dark brown bud attachedto its host, the stem or root of a jungle vine. After taking approximatelynine months to mature into a cabbage-sized bud, the plant opens.The petals, usually five, sometimes six, are red in colour andcovered with lighter coloured spots. When in full bloom the floweremits a foul odour which attracts flies and other insects. TheRafflesia only flowers for 5 to 6 days, before the petals blackenand the flower withers.



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    Post by cookiegal Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:15 am

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    Post by Jessie2000 Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:26 am

    Hi
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    Post by kingchinny22 Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:26 am

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    One of the most amazing flower in the world is the Corpse Flower. By far one of the hardest flowers to grow out of it's natural habitat, the Amorphophallus Titanum Lives in the rainforest of Sumatra.

    It flowers infrequently in its native state and even less frequently in cultivation.

    The reson for it's name- It smealls like a rotting corpse.(apparently!)



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    The titan arum (Corpse Flower) or Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", and titan, "giant") is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world. The largest single flower is borne by the Rafflesia arnoldii; the largest branched inflorescence in the plant kingdom belongs to the Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera). It thrives at the edges of rainforests near open grasslands. Though found in many botanic gardens around the world it is still indigenous only to the tropical forests of Sumatra. Due to its fragrance, which is reminiscent of the smell of a decomposing mammal,[1] the titan arum is also known as a carrion flower, the "Corpse flower", or "Corpse plant" (in Indonesian, "bunga bangkai" – bunga means flower, while bangkai means corpse or cadaver; for the same reason, the same title is also attributed to Rafflesia which, like the titan arum, also grows in the rainforests of Sumatra.

    Description:

    The titan arum's inflorescence can reach over 3 metres (10 ft) in circumference. Like the related cuckoo pint and calla lily, it consists of a fragrant spadix of flowers wrapped by a spathe, which looks like the flower's single petal. In the case of the Titan Arum, the spathe is green on the outside and dark burgundy red on the inside, and deeply furrowed. The spadix is hollow and resembles a large loaf of French bread. The upper, visible portion of the spadix is covered in pollen, while its lower extremity is spangled with bright red-orange carpels. The "fragrance" of the inflorescence resembles rotting meat, attracting carrion-eating beetles and Flesh Flies (family Sarcophagidae) that pollinate it. The flower's deep red color and texture contribute to the illusion that the spathe is a piece of meat. During bloom, the tip of the spadix is approximately human body temperature, which helps the perfume volatilize; this heat is also believed to assist in the illusion that attracts carcass-eating insects.

    Both male and female flowers grow in the same inflorescence. The female flowers open first, then a day or two following, the male flowers open. This prevents the flower from self-pollinating.

    After the flower dies back, a single leaf, which reaches the size of a small tree, grows from the underground corm. The leaf grows on a semi-green stalk that branches into three sections at the top, each containing many leaflets. The leaf structure can reach up to 6 metres (20 ft) tall and 5 metres (16 ft) across. Each year, the old leaf dies and a new one grows in its place. When the corm has stored enough energy, it becomes dormant for about 4 months. Then, the process repeats.

    The corm is the largest known, weighing around 50 kilograms (110 lb).[3] When a specimen at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens, was repotted after its dormant period, the weight was recorded as 91 kilograms (200 lb).[4]

    Cultivation:

    The titan arum grows in the wild only in the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was first scientifically described in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari. The plant flowers only infrequently in the wild and even more rarely when cultivated. It first flowered in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London, in 1889, with over 100 cultivated blossoms since then. The first documented flowerings in the United States were at New York Botanical Garden in 1937 and 1939. This flowering also inspired the designation of the titan arum as the official flower of the Bronx in 1939, only to be replaced in 2000 by the day lily. The number of cultivated plants has increased in recent years, and it is not uncommon for there to be five or more flowering events in gardens around the world in a single year. The titan arum is more commonly available to the advanced gardener due to pollination techniques.

    Until 2005, the tallest bloom in cultivation, some 2.74 m (8 ft. 11 in.) high, was achieved at the Botanical Garden of the University of Bonn in Germany in 2003. The event was acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records.[5]

    On 20 October 2005, this record was broken at the botanical and zoological garden Wilhelma in Stuttgart, Germany. The bloom reached a height of 2.94 m (9 ft. 6 in.).



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    Post by Flabbergasted Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:44 am

    Hiya! have you ever seen a beautiful flower and wanted to know what it was? well here is one that i can teach you about for if you see one! Smile

    Asters are beautiful perennials that are found wild in North America and southern Europe. In fact yesterday i fond one!! it was my favorite color red Very Happy

    Aster's come in 5 colors: blue, purple, white, pink and red but the centers are often yellow.

    Native asters are often tall and gangly; they have struggled up through tall grass and weeds to the sunlight. They throw their froth of small, daisy like flowers out above the brush and sprinkle them through the weeds.

    if you would like to see a picture of what i drew compared to the real one then look down

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    i hope this has helped you with this wounder full plant! now go try and find one in the nearist forest. if you live in those country's that i said lol!

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    Post by davidarchuletaai Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:54 am

    Dodecatheon is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the Primrose family Primulaceae. The species have basal clumps of leaves and nodding flowers that are produced at the top of tall stems that rise from where the leaves join the crown. They are commonly called Shooting Stars because of the flower shape. The genus is largely confined to North America, and part of northeastern Siberia. Common names also include, American Cowslip, Mosquito Bills, Mad Violets, and Sailor-caps. A few species are grown in gardens for their showy and unique flower display.
    The stamens are thrust out with the sepals bent back. The flowers are pollinated by bees, which grab hold of the petals, and gather pollen by vibrating the flowers by buzzing their wings ('buzz pollination'). The vibration releases pollen from the anthers.

    The picture below is my drawing of the Dodecatheon flower:

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    My answer to the question in the Chobots blog about "Where does this flower grown in Chobots" is in the Location Eco as you can see on the picture below and in the Cinema (I did not post the picture in the Cinema):

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    Post by elise__23 Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:06 am

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    Post by Kool_Man Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:15 am

    Mine is about the heterostyly flower I think its a very beautiful flower! look at the pics!
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    Heterostyly is a unique form of polymorphism and herkogamy in flowers. In a heterostylous species, two or three different morphological types of flowers, termed morphs, exist in the population. On each individual plant, all flowers share the same morph. The flower morphs differ in the lengths of the pistil and stamens, and these traits are not continuous. The morph phenotype is genetically linked to genes responsible for a unique system of self-incompatibility, termed heteromorphic self-incompatibility, that is, the pollen from a flower on one morph cannot fertilize another flower of the same morph. affraid
    Heterostylous plants having two flower morphs are termed distylous. In one morph, termed pin, the stamens are short and the pistils are long; in the second morph, termed thrum, the stamens are long and the pistils are short; the length of the pistil in one morph equals the length of the stamens in the second morph, and vice versa.Examples of distylous plants are the primrose and many other Primula species, flax and other Linum species, purple loosestrife and other Lythrum species, and many species of Cryptantha.
    Heterostylous plants having three flower morphs are termed tristylous. Each morph has two types of stamens. In one morph, the pistil is short, and the stamens are long and intermediate; in the second morph, the pistil is intermediate, and the stamens are short and long; in the third morph, the pistil is long, and the stamens are short and intermediate. Some species of Lythrum are trimorphic.
    The different lengths of stamens and pistils in heterostylous flowers are adapted for pollination by different pollinators, or different body parts of the same pollinator. Thus, pollen originating in a long stamen will reach primarily long rather than short pistils, and vice versa. When pollen is transferred between two flowers of the same morph, no fertilization will take place, because of the self-incompatibility mechanism. Shocked affraid

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    Where does this flower grown in Chobots?
    The answer is: outside the eco shop!
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    Hello chobots, Im bubu1028 and im gonna be showing u about the Dracunculus vulgaris Very Happy Very Happy
    This rather bizarre plant, reminiscent of a calla lily, produces what appears to be a blossom, but, in reality, is a spathe. As it unfurls, it reveals a slender, black center appendage, known as the spadix, which can reach a total length of 25 - 135 cm (10 - 53 in). Shocked The actual flowers - both male and female - are hidden deep inside the spathe, which features a bulbous chamber.
    Despite its beauty, though, this plant does have a distinct disadvantage. It relies on flies and other insects for pollination and, therefore, emits a putrid (dung and carrion-like) smell, to attract them. However, you have to get really close to the plant to perceive its fetid scent. Embarassed
    Some 2,500 years ago, in his treatise entitled "Enquiry into Plants", Theophrastus wrote that the root of this plant is not edible, but has pharmaceutical usages. Unfortunately, though, he does not specify these usages. He also states that the plant derives its name, the Dragon Arum, owing to its variably multicolored shoot, which apparently, resembles a reptilian skin.
    According to an article by the "Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences", entitled "Fatty acid composition of Dracunculus vulgaris Schott (Araceae) seed oil from Turkey," the tubers and the fruits with the seeds of D . Exclamation Exclamation vulgaris have long been in use, in Turkey, for the treatment of rheumatism and hemorrhoids, respectively. Said article can be downloaded, in PDF format, here.
    Additionally, "Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases" maintain that parts of the plant are used for the treatment of cancer and, in veterinary medicine, as a parasiticide and as a remedy for skin disorders. lol!

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    On the 'Where does this flower grow'contest I think it grows at location eco and chollywood/cinema.
    Judging it purely on the photo, that picture is taken at the cinema.

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    A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. The process begins with pollination, is followed by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the inflorescence.And most importantly they make the fruits for the plants.

    Flowering plants usually face selective pressure to optimise the transfer of their pollen, and this is typically reflected in the morphology of the flowers and the behaviour of the plants. Pollen may be transferred between plants via a number of 'vectors'. Some plants make use of abiotic vectors - namely wind (anemophily) or, much less commonly, water (hydrophily). Others use biotic vectors including insects (entomophily), birds (ornithophily), bats (chiropterophily) or other animals. Some plants make use of multiple vectors, but many are highly specialised.

    Cleistogamous flowers are self pollinated, after which they may or may not open. Many Viola and some Salvia species are known to have these types of flowers.

    The flowers of plants that make use of biotic pollen vectors commonly have glands called nectaries that act as an incentive for animals to visit the flower. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent and color. Still other flowers use mimicry to attract pollinators. Some species of orchids, for example, produce flowers resembling female bees in color, shape, and scent. Flowers are also specialized in shape and have an arrangement of the stamens that ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator when it lands in search of its attractant (such as nectar, pollen, or a mate). In pursuing this attractant from many flowers of the same species, the pollinator transfers pollen to the stigmas—arranged with equally pointed precision—of all of the flowers it visits.


    Anemophilous flowers use the wind to move pollen from one flower to the next. Examples include grasses, birch trees, ragweed and maples. They have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy" flowers. Male and female reproductive organs are generally found in separate flowers, the male flowers having a number of long filaments terminating in exposed stamens, and the female flowers having long, feather-like stigmas. Whereas the pollen of animal-pollinated flowers tends to be large-grained, sticky, and rich in protein (another "reward" for pollinators), anemophilous flower pollen is usually small-grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to animals.

    Flowers are also used for funerals,valentines day,gifts for love ones,weddings and many more....

    Here are the parts of the flower:
    Petal-Petals are used to attract insects into the flower, they may have guidelines on them and be scented.

    Stigma-Is covered in a sticky substance that the pollen grains will adhere to.
    Style The style raises the stigma away from the Ovary to decrease the likelihood of pollen contamination. It varies in length.

    Ovary-This protects the ovule and once fertilisation has taken place it will become the fruit.

    Ovule-The Ovule is like the egg in animals and once fertilisation has taken place will become the seed.
    Receptacle-This is the flower's attachment to the stalk and in some cases becomes part of the fruit after fertilisation e.g. strawberry.

    Flower stalk-Gives support to the flower and elevates the flower for the insects.

    Nectary-This is where a sugary solution called nectar is held to attract insects.

    Sepal-Sepals protect the flower whilst the flower is developing from a bud.

    Filament-This is the stalk of the Anther.
    Anther-The Anthers contain pollen sacs. The sacs release pollen on to the outside of the anthers that brush against insects on entering the flowers. The pollen once deposited on the insect is transferred to the stigma of another flower or the same flower. The ovule is then able to be fertilised.

    NOTE:Some plants do not have a stigma or the anther

    Women prefer pastel colored roses, men on the other hand prefer red.

    button The spice saffron comes from a certain type of crocus.

    button Tulip bulbs can be used in place of onions for cooking.

    button In 1986 Congress voted to make the rose America's national flower.

    button The bluebonnet became the Texas state flower in 1901. In 1971, the state legislature, named all lupine species as the official state flower.
    The flower looks like a little bonnet when you look at it closely. After it rains, look for a drop of water in each bonnet or bowl-like petal. As the Texas bluebonnet flower ages, one of the top petals turns purple-red.

    button Pink and White Lady Slipper (cypripedium reginae) is the State flower of Minnesota. Illegal to pick in the state, the pink and white lady slipper is one of Minnesota's rarest wildflowers. They can take up to 16 years to produce their first flower, and sometimes live for 50 years.

    button The creamy-white bloom of the magnolia tree was designated the state flower of Louisiana in 1900 because of the abundance of trees throughout the state. Magnolia is an evergreen and the flower is usually fragrant. After the six to twelve petals of the flower have fallen away the large cone shaped fruit of the magnolia is exposed.

    button The Peach Blossom became the State flower of Delaware on May 9, 1895. It was prompted by Delaware's reputation as the "Peach State," since her orchards contained more than 800,000 peach trees yielding a crop worth thousands of dollars at that time.

    button California is the source for nearly 60% of all USA-grown fresh cut flowers.

    button Americans bought more than 1.2 BILLION fresh cut roses in the year 1996. That's 4.67 roses for every man, woman, and child nationwide.

    button The number of Begonia hybrids is estimated between 1000 and 2000. Within this enormous family there are plants which are tiny enough to grow in an egg shell and others which can cover a greenhouse wall. If you become addicted to growing begonias you are called a begoniac.

    button The first recorded plant collectors were the soldiers in the army of Thothmes III, Pharaoh of Egypt, 3500 years ago. In the Temple of Karnak these soldiers are shown bringing back 300 plants as booty from Syria.

    button In 1990 about 250 ha. were cultivated with orchids in Malaysia, producing over 27.86 million stalks of cutflowers, valued at RM 18.30 million. Exports of orchids were valued at RM 3.4 million in 1991.

    button The cactus family is divided into more than 100 genera. For simplicity North American cacti are placed into five groups: the prickly pears, the saguaro cactus group, the hedgehog cacti, the barrel cacti, and the pin-cushion and fishhook cacti.

    button In 1890 Luther Burbank crossed oxeye field daisy and Japanese daisy to produce perhaps the quintessential chrysanthemum - The Shasta Daisy.

    button The rose of Great Britain was the symbol of the Royal Family. As time passed, it became the national flower. The rose of Scotland was a kind of weed called "the wild thistle". A long time ago, when Vikings invaded Scotland, they were slowed in their attack by the thorns of the wild thistle. This allowed the people of Scotland time to escape from the Viking's sudden attack. Because of this legend, "the wild thistle" became the national flower of Scotland. The national flower of Wales was a kind of a smelly Leek. When the English sneer at someone, they say "Eat the Leek". That is the reason, Wales has changed their national flower to a narcissus.

    button Germany's national flower, centaurea is related with the emperor of old Germany. It has been called the "Emperor's flower". Because of the authoritative language of the flower's name, it naturally has been considered the national flower. Its status was not changed after the republic of Germany was established.

    button Egypt is known as the starting place of the ancient civilizations. "A water lily" has been Egypt's national flower for about 4000 years. It can be seen anywhere on the river Nile, especially the "blue water lily". The blue water lily has been loved by Egyptians for a long time. It was also considered the "God of the Resurrection", so it is sometimes laid on the tomb of "Mica". A few pieces of blue and white water lily flower picture have been found in the tomb of Rames II (ca. B.C. 13th century). Most of the Arab countries have followed Egypt's custom of adopting a water lily as the national flower.

    button Sent by Sandi...sandi@onlinemac.com
    The Oregon Grape,is our state flower. As a matter of fact, I have some growing in my backyard. The Oregon Grape is all over Oregon, that's why it was picked as our state flower. I don't know why it's called Oregon Grape, because the berries look like blue berries. Maybe the one who named it, never saw blue berries before.

    button The World's Largest Flower
    The Titan Arum is not only the world's largest flower it is also the world's smelliest.
    This native of the central Sumatran rainforests is known affectionately as the Corpse Flower for its heady perfume of rotting flesh. It is 3 metres high

    button The World's Smallest Flower
    A bouquet of a dozen Wolffia blooms would comfortably fit on the head of a pin.
    A type of duckweed, Wolffia grows on the surface of ponds and slow moving streams.
    This very minute flowering plant is native to Australia and Malaysia. The plant body is 0.6-0.9 mm long and only 0.2-0.5 mm wide. Not only is it one of the smallest flowering plants on earth, but it also produces one of the smallest fruits.

    button The World's Largest Bouquet
    70, 000 roses went into the making of the world's largest flower bouquet.
    The 23.4 metre arrangement was the work of Ashrita Furman

    button The World's Oldest Flower
    In 2002 scientists in north-east China discovered a fossilised flower that blossomed about 125 million years ago. Called "the mother of all flowers", Archaefructus sinensis resembles the modern water lily






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    A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. The process begins with pollination, is followed by fertilization, leading to the formation and dispersal of the seeds. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and serve as the primary means by which individuals of a species are dispersed across the landscape. The grouping of flowers on a plant are called the inflorescence.And most importantly they make the fruits for the plants.

    Flowering plants usually face selective pressure to optimise the transfer of their pollen, and this is typically reflected in the morphology of the flowers and the behaviour of the plants. Pollen may be transferred between plants via a number of 'vectors'. Some plants make use of abiotic vectors - namely wind (anemophily) or, much less commonly, water (hydrophily). Others use biotic vectors including insects (entomophily), birds (ornithophily), bats (chiropterophily) or other animals. Some plants make use of multiple vectors, but many are highly specialised.

    Cleistogamous flowers are self pollinated, after which they may or may not open. Many Viola and some Salvia species are known to have these types of flowers.

    The flowers of plants that make use of biotic pollen vectors commonly have glands called nectaries that act as an incentive for animals to visit the flower. Some flowers have patterns, called nectar guides, that show pollinators where to look for nectar. Flowers also attract pollinators by scent and color. Still other flowers use mimicry to attract pollinators. Some species of orchids, for example, produce flowers resembling female bees in color, shape, and scent. Flowers are also specialized in shape and have an arrangement of the stamens that ensures that pollen grains are transferred to the bodies of the pollinator when it lands in search of its attractant (such as nectar, pollen, or a mate). In pursuing this attractant from many flowers of the same species, the pollinator transfers pollen to the stigmas—arranged with equally pointed precision—of all of the flowers it visits.


    Anemophilous flowers use the wind to move pollen from one flower to the next. Examples include grasses, birch trees, ragweed and maples. They have no need to attract pollinators and therefore tend not to be "showy" flowers. Male and female reproductive organs are generally found in separate flowers, the male flowers having a number of long filaments terminating in exposed stamens, and the female flowers having long, feather-like stigmas. Whereas the pollen of animal-pollinated flowers tends to be large-grained, sticky, and rich in protein (another "reward" for pollinators), anemophilous flower pollen is usually small-grained, very light, and of little nutritional value to animals.

    Flowers are also used for funerals,valentines day,gifts for love ones,weddings and many more....

    Here are the parts of the flower:
    Petal-Petals are used to attract insects into the flower, they may have guidelines on them and be scented.

    Stigma-Is covered in a sticky substance that the pollen grains will adhere to.
    Style The style raises the stigma away from the Ovary to decrease the likelihood of pollen contamination. It varies in length.

    Ovary-This protects the ovule and once fertilisation has taken place it will become the fruit.

    Ovule-The Ovule is like the egg in animals and once fertilisation has taken place will become the seed.
    Receptacle-This is the flower's attachment to the stalk and in some cases becomes part of the fruit after fertilisation e.g. strawberry.

    Flower stalk-Gives support to the flower and elevates the flower for the insects.

    Nectary-This is where a sugary solution called nectar is held to attract insects.

    Sepal-Sepals protect the flower whilst the flower is developing from a bud.

    Filament-This is the stalk of the Anther.
    Anther-The Anthers contain pollen sacs. The sacs release pollen on to the outside of the anthers that brush against insects on entering the flowers. The pollen once deposited on the insect is transferred to the stigma of another flower or the same flower. The ovule is then able to be fertilised.

    NOTE:Some plants do not have a stigma or the anther

    Women prefer pastel colored roses, men on the other hand prefer red.

    button The spice saffron comes from a certain type of crocus.

    button Tulip bulbs can be used in place of onions for cooking.

    button In 1986 Congress voted to make the rose America's national flower.

    button The bluebonnet became the Texas state flower in 1901. In 1971, the state legislature, named all lupine species as the official state flower.
    The flower looks like a little bonnet when you look at it closely. After it rains, look for a drop of water in each bonnet or bowl-like petal. As the Texas bluebonnet flower ages, one of the top petals turns purple-red.

    button Pink and White Lady Slipper (cypripedium reginae) is the State flower of Minnesota. Illegal to pick in the state, the pink and white lady slipper is one of Minnesota's rarest wildflowers. They can take up to 16 years to produce their first flower, and sometimes live for 50 years.

    button The creamy-white bloom of the magnolia tree was designated the state flower of Louisiana in 1900 because of the abundance of trees throughout the state. Magnolia is an evergreen and the flower is usually fragrant. After the six to twelve petals of the flower have fallen away the large cone shaped fruit of the magnolia is exposed.

    button The Peach Blossom became the State flower of Delaware on May 9, 1895. It was prompted by Delaware's reputation as the "Peach State," since her orchards contained more than 800,000 peach trees yielding a crop worth thousands of dollars at that time.

    button California is the source for nearly 60% of all USA-grown fresh cut flowers.

    button Americans bought more than 1.2 BILLION fresh cut roses in the year 1996. That's 4.67 roses for every man, woman, and child nationwide.

    button The number of Begonia hybrids is estimated between 1000 and 2000. Within this enormous family there are plants which are tiny enough to grow in an egg shell and others which can cover a greenhouse wall. If you become addicted to growing begonias you are called a begoniac.

    button The first recorded plant collectors were the soldiers in the army of Thothmes III, Pharaoh of Egypt, 3500 years ago. In the Temple of Karnak these soldiers are shown bringing back 300 plants as booty from Syria.

    button In 1990 about 250 ha. were cultivated with orchids in Malaysia, producing over 27.86 million stalks of cutflowers, valued at RM 18.30 million. Exports of orchids were valued at RM 3.4 million in 1991.

    button The cactus family is divided into more than 100 genera. For simplicity North American cacti are placed into five groups: the prickly pears, the saguaro cactus group, the hedgehog cacti, the barrel cacti, and the pin-cushion and fishhook cacti.

    button In 1890 Luther Burbank crossed oxeye field daisy and Japanese daisy to produce perhaps the quintessential chrysanthemum - The Shasta Daisy.

    button The rose of Great Britain was the symbol of the Royal Family. As time passed, it became the national flower. The rose of Scotland was a kind of weed called "the wild thistle". A long time ago, when Vikings invaded Scotland, they were slowed in their attack by the thorns of the wild thistle. This allowed the people of Scotland time to escape from the Viking's sudden attack. Because of this legend, "the wild thistle" became the national flower of Scotland. The national flower of Wales was a kind of a smelly Leek. When the English sneer at someone, they say "Eat the Leek". That is the reason, Wales has changed their national flower to a narcissus.

    button Germany's national flower, centaurea is related with the emperor of old Germany. It has been called the "Emperor's flower". Because of the authoritative language of the flower's name, it naturally has been considered the national flower. Its status was not changed after the republic of Germany was established.

    button Egypt is known as the starting place of the ancient civilizations. "A water lily" has been Egypt's national flower for about 4000 years. It can be seen anywhere on the river Nile, especially the "blue water lily". The blue water lily has been loved by Egyptians for a long time. It was also considered the "God of the Resurrection", so it is sometimes laid on the tomb of "Mica". A few pieces of blue and white water lily flower picture have been found in the tomb of Rames II (ca. B.C. 13th century). Most of the Arab countries have followed Egypt's custom of adopting a water lily as the national flower.

    button Sent by Sandi...sandi@onlinemac.com
    The Oregon Grape,is our state flower. As a matter of fact, I have some growing in my backyard. The Oregon Grape is all over Oregon, that's why it was picked as our state flower. I don't know why it's called Oregon Grape, because the berries look like blue berries. Maybe the one who named it, never saw blue berries before.

    button The World's Largest Flower
    The Titan Arum is not only the world's largest flower it is also the world's smelliest.
    This native of the central Sumatran rainforests is known affectionately as the Corpse Flower for its heady perfume of rotting flesh. It is 3 metres high

    button The World's Smallest Flower
    A bouquet of a dozen Wolffia blooms would comfortably fit on the head of a pin.
    A type of duckweed, Wolffia grows on the surface of ponds and slow moving streams.
    This very minute flowering plant is native to Australia and Malaysia. The plant body is 0.6-0.9 mm long and only 0.2-0.5 mm wide. Not only is it one of the smallest flowering plants on earth, but it also produces one of the smallest fruits.

    button The World's Largest Bouquet
    70, 000 roses went into the making of the world's largest flower bouquet.
    The 23.4 metre arrangement was the work of Ashrita Furman

    button The World's Oldest Flower
    In 2002 scientists in north-east China discovered a fossilised flower that blossomed about 125 million years ago. Called "the mother of all flowers", Archaefructus sinensis resembles the modern water lily






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    Orchids

    Orchidaceae (or Orchid family) is the largest family of the flowering plants (Angiospermae). Its name is derived from the genus Orchis.
    The Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew list 880 genera and nearly 22,000 accepted species, but the exact number is unknown (perhaps as many as 25,000) because of taxonomic disputes. The number of orchid species equals about four times the number of mammal species, or more than twice the number of bird species. It also encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants. About 800 new orchid species are added each year. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species). The family also includes the Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchis (type genus) and many commonly cultivated plants like some Phalaenopsis or Cattleya.
    Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species in the 19th century, horticulturists have more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars.

    Most orchids live on trees and needs care and attention just like other plants and flowers.

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    Post by vzer Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:41 am

    Here's mine its about roses.

    A rose is a perennial flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colours.
    The birthplace of the cultivated Rose was probably Northern Persia, on the Caspian, or Faristan on the Gulf of Persia.
    Also Green roses are one of the most remarkable roses which exist on earth. They are apparently in cultivation since the year 1743. It became more popular after they were introduced to the world in the year 1856 by a British company named Bembridge and Harrison. The bizarre blooms are made up wholly of sepals and not petals. When you see it you will feel that the plant seems to have forgotten to form petals, and so had made the flower with more sepals.

    About rose colors:

    Cherish or charm or cheer with the meaning of rose colors. These are just a few of the messages you can send with the flowers you choose. Roses symbolize our most profound concepts- Beauty, Love and desire, Purity and chastity, Innocence and modesty, Truth and virtue, Friendship, Jealousy, Religious reverence, Death and mourning.

    Interesting facts:

    •Light blue roses are often called lilac or lavender roses

    •Red roses were never found they were a mixed breed of a red chinese flower and a white rose
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    Post by cauchemar Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:43 am

    The oldest rose in the world has flourished for over 1,000 years on the wall of Hildeshiem Cathedral in Germany.

    Tulips don't originally come from Holland. They were imported from Turkey in the 16th century.

    In 17th century Holland, tulips were valued higher than many precious metals and gems. A single bulb is said to have sold for more than $2,000.

    Tulips are one of the fastest developing flowers. They can grow up to an inch a day after being cut.

    The Hawaiian Tulip is one of the most toxic flowers to humans. All parts of the plant are poisonous if consumed.

    According to a Christian story, carnations were created when Mary watched Jesus carrying the cross. A flower bloomed when her first tear hit the ground.

    In 1986 Congress voted to make the rose America's national flower.

    A rare plant called Puya raimondii from the Andes in South America doesn't grow a flower until it is 150 years old - and after that it dies.

    According to the fossil record, flowering plants appeared only about 140 million years ago, although some recently found fossil evidence suggests that they appeared 80 million years before that.

    The Egyptian empire began cultivating and growing flowers over 4000 years ago.

    Thomas Edison created rubber from the flower Golden Rod.

    The daffodil's sap contains sharp crystals that protect the flower from grazing animals.

    Chocolate cosmos smell like chocolate.

    Vanilla comes from the fruit of an orchid, Vanilla planifolia.

    The poppy is used as a symbol for Remembrance Day (November 11) because the flower bloomed in the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I.

    The Welsh believed that if marigolds were not open early in the morning, then a storm was on the way.

    Chickens eating marigold-enriched feed produce eggs with a deep yellow color.

    Sunflowers turn their heads to the sun, which is the origin of their common name.

    In Turkey, during the 1600's, flowers were used for sending coded messages for an array of purposes.

    Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower stems.

    80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.

    Pinks are so called not because of their color but because of the ragged edges, or pinks, on each petal. The color pink is actually named after the flower.

    Prince Charles is paid one daffodil a year as rent for his lands on the Island of Sicily.

    Roses don't have thorns, but rather sharp outgrowths of the skin of the stem called prickles.

    It takes about 5000 saffron flowers to produce just one ounce of saffron spice.

    Orchids come in almost every color available except blue - there are even black and green orchids.
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    Post by cauchemar Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:46 am

    Flowers are a true summer delight. It’s a time when you can see a gorgeous blossom almost everywhere you look, no matter where you live. And it’s a special season because it’s the only time all year that we get to see naturally blue flowers – cornflower, delphinium, hydrangea.

    That said, summer heat and humidity can wreak havoc with your garden. I hate to say it, but there really is such a thing a delicate flower. Luckily, there are so many to choose from. Here are my choices for the top 5 flowers that can tolerate heat.

    Cosmos
    Nope, it’s not a cocktail. Smile The fragrant cosmos flower graces many a summer garden. Put one in your back yard and you’ll likely attract hummingbirds as well as humans. The plant can grow as high as 5 feet and is available in many colors, even some striped varieties. The name cosmos comes from the Greek word for an ordered universe. Apparently those Greeks were majorly impressed with the flower’s symmetrical petals.


    Hibiscus
    This Asian and pacific native is the state flower of Hawaii and the national flower of Malaysia. Relatives are the rose-of-sharon, okra, cotton and hollyhock, among others. There are thousands of colors and the plant can reach 15 feet in height. For more info, see:

    Marigold
    Easy to grow and ever-cheerful, marigolds are another summer favorite. Marigolds like full sun, natch, and bloom into late fall. There are several cool varieties – African, French, Spanish Tarragon, Irish Lace – to name a few. They are also the wedding flower in India.

    Sunflower
    Native to North and South America, the sunflower turns to follow the sun (smart flowers!). Clearly, the bloom has plenty of vibrant color, but a lesser-known fact is that it has no fragrance. It’s the state flower of Kansas and the 3rd wedding anniversary flower.

    Zinnia
    One of the reasons I love zinnias is that they come in so many colors, including yellow, white, orange, purple and red. There are about 100 varieties of the flower. Zinnias are popular with gardeners and they’re a hit with butterflies, too. And the name? That’s in honor of 18th century German botanist Johann Gottfried Zinn.
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    Post by Yolande Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:16 am

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