| A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants.
Flowers provide an eye-catching attribute to an otherwise plain, green-leaved plant. When insects, birds and some bats dip down to take a look at the flower and steal its nectar, they are inadvertently pollinating the plants by moving pollen from the male stamens to the female pistils.
The flower with the world’s largest bloom is Rafflesia arnoldii commonly called the corpse lily. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 1 meter (3.3 feet) across and weigh up to 11 kilograms (24 pounds). It is a parasitic plant, with no visible leaves, roots, or stem. Rafflesia arnoldii has a very strong and unpleasant odour of decaying flesh, earning it the nickname “corpse flower.â€
Sunflowers move throughout the day in response to the movement of the sun from east to west. Each sunflower is actually made of thousands of teeny flowers called florets. The iconic yellow petals and fuzzy brown centers are actually individual flowers themselves. As many as 2000 can make up the classic sunflower bloom.
A plant that had no petals and lived underwater more than 125 million years ago is the oldest known ‘flower’, according to scientists. The aquatic Montsechia vidalii (pictured as a fossil) was once abundant in freshwater lakes in what are now mountainous regions of central and northern Spain. Plant may resemble a weed but was a flowering plant. The fossil was discovered more than 100 years ago in limestone deposits, but its significance has only recently become apparent after scientists look a fresh look.
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