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Do you Know the Functions of Sepals & Petals?
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BY Team Aakash Byjus
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Flower
The flower is the most attractive and colourful part of the plant. It is the reproductive part of the plant.
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Parts of Flower: A flower has mainly four parts. These include sepals, petals, stamens and carpel.
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Sepals and petals aren't involved in reproduction, but stamens and carpel are.
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Sepals and petals are the vegetative parts of a flower.
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Sepals
-The green, leaf-like structures present around the flower are called sepals. -All the sepals together are called the calyx.
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Some flowers have joined sepals (Datura, hibiscus, etc.), while others have individual sepals (Rose and Jasmine).
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Functions of Sepals
They protect the flower's reproductive organs from outside forces.
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The colourful and beautiful parts of a flower are known as petals.
Petals
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-Most of the flowers have colourful and attractive petals. -But there are some flowers that are colourless. For example, Jasmine, Datura.
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Functions of Petals
The colourfulness of the petals help in pollination as they attract birds and animals during pollination.
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-Petals of some flowers release a scent to attract insects. -Petals protect the stamens and carpel.