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Flowers SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Fruit and seeds
p.115

Flowers are a part of a plant. To make new seeds, ▸ ▸ Habitats p.126
they swap tiny grains called pollen. Pollen can ▸ ▸ Insects p.134
be spread by wind or insects. Flowers have brightly ▸ ▸ Plants p.194

colored petals to attract insects. ▸ ▸ Shapes p.222
▸ ▸ Trees p.261
Stigma
This is sticky to
catch any pollen
that is carried
Flower structure to the flower.
Flowers have male and female
parts. To make a seed, pollen
passes from the male part of
one flower to the female Anthers
part of another. These are the male
parts of the flower.
They are covered in
tiny grains of pollen.

Filament
This stalk
Petals holds up
These are Ovary the anther.
brightly colored This is the female part
to attract insects of the flower where The tallest flower
to the flower. new seeds form. is the Titan arum.
It grows more than
10 ft (3 m) high.
Insects
Insects help to move pollen from the anther
of one flower to the stigma of another. The pollen
travels on their bodies. Once transferred, the
pollen fertilizes the ovary to form seeds. Flower shapes
Different shapes of flowers attract
different insects. Some insects fit
down long, narrow flowers, others
need big petals to land on. Dome

Cone-shaped Regular Rosette Bell-shaped
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