Flowers

Some articles on flowers, flower:

Panicle
... compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers (and fruit) attached along the secondary branches in other words, a branched cluster of ... to a panicle with the same branching structure, but with the lower flowers having longer stems, thus giving a flattish top superficially resembling an umbel ... Many species in the Maloideae, such as hawthorns and rowans, produce their flowers in corymbs ...
Pollination - Mechanics
... Cross-pollination, also called allogamy, occurs when pollen is delivered to a flower from a different plant ... than carpels or use other mechanisms to better ensure the spread of pollen to other plants' flowers ... Self-pollination occurs when pollen from one flower pollinates the same flower or other flowers of the same individual ...
Amaranthaceae - Description - Inflorescence and Flowers
... The flowers are solitary or aggregated in cymes, spikes, or panicles and typically perfect (bisexual) and actinomorphic ... Some species have unisexual flowers ... Flowers are regular with a herbaceous or scarious perianth of (1 to) mostly 5 (rarely to 8) tepals, often joined ...
Kangaroo Paw
... These perennial plants are noted for their unique bird attracting flowers ... The tubular flowers are coated with dense hairs and open at the apex with six claw-like structures from this paw formation the common name "Kangaroo Paw" is ... The flower stems can grow to over 1.5 metres with abundant flowers being green/yellow ...
Flower Power
... Flower power was a slogan used by the American counterculture movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violenc ... Hippies embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming ...

Famous quotes related to flowers:

    “Are flowers the winter’s choice?
    Is love’s bed always snow?”
    —John Clare (1793–1864)

    “These are thy wonders, Lord of love,
    To make us see we are but flowers that glide.
    Which when we once can finde and prove,
    Thou hast a garden for us where to bide.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “And like a prophetess of May
    Strew’d flowers upon the barren way,
    Making the wintry world appear
    Like one on whom thou smilest, dear.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “the gray filth of it:
    the knowledge that humankind,
    delicate Man, whose flesh
    responds to a caress, whose eyes
    are flowers that perceive the stars ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)