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Flowers with Tropical treat Flower
You have to look closely
a difference to see this plant’s true flowers,
because they are small. The
flowers are surrounded by special
pink leaves. The plant’s name,
In nature, things are not always Find that flower! bougainvillea (boo-gan-vil-ia),
is quite a mouthful!
what they seem. Some plants have Most of this sun-spurge
small, drab flowers, but they still flower head is made up This colored leaf
manage to put on a brilliant show of special cup-shaped is called a bract.
of color. Instead of petals, they leaves, called bracts. The
flowers themselves are
use brightly colored leaves, or tiny, and they nestle in Leaf stems cling on Bougainvillea is Ordinary
a climbing plant.
sepals, to attract insects. the middle of each cup. by hooking around leaf
other plants.
Two in one Showy sepals
Take a look at this “lacecap” The showy flower of this
hydrangea flower head. It is clematis is actually a ring of
made up of many tightly sepals. Many plants have
packed flowers. Some of small green sepals, but the
the flowers have big, clematis has sepals that are
colorful sepals, bigger and more colorful
while the others Sepals than the rest of the flower.
are very small.
Colorful leaves
When growing wild,
Inner flowers are
much smaller. Only poinsettia (poyn-set-ee-ah)
these can make seeds. plants grow into big bushes,
topped by leaves that turn
crimson during the flowering
Outer flowers have season. The poinsettia’s real
four big, colorful sepals flowers are surrounded by
to attract insects. these bright leaves.
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