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2. Petal - Wikipedia

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   Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers. They are often brightly coloured or unusually shaped to attract pollinators. All of the petals of a flower are collectively known as the corolla. Petals are usually accompanied by another set of modified leaves called sepals, that collectively form the calyx and lie ...

3. Tepal - Wikipedia

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   Tepal. Diagram showing the parts of a mature flower. In this example the perianth is separated into a calyx (sepals) and corolla (petals) A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the ...

4. History of saffron - Wikipedia

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   History of saffron. Saffron crocus flowers, represented as small red tufts, are gathered by two women in a fragmentary Minoan fresco from the excavation of Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Santorini. Human cultivation and use of saffron spans more than 3,500 years [1][2] and extends across cultures, continents, and civilizations.

5. Rose oil - Wikipedia

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   Rose (Rosa damascena) essential oil in clear glass vial. Rose oil (rose otto, attar of rose, attar of roses, or rose essence) is the essential oil extracted from the petals of various types of rose. Rose ottos are extracted through steam distillation, [1] while rose absolutes[2] are obtained through solvent extraction, the absolute being used ...

6. Butea monosperma - Wikipedia

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   Butea monosperma. (Lam.) Taub. A single flower in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The beak-shaped keel petal gave rise to the name "parrot tree". Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is also known as flame of the forest, Bengal kino, dhak, palash, and bastard teak. [2]

7. Trillium erectum - Wikipedia

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   Trillium erectum is a perennial, herbaceous, flowering plant that persists by means of an underground rhizome.Like all trilliums, it has a whorl of three bracts (leaves) and a single trimerous flower with three sepals, three petals, two whorls of three stamens each, and three carpels (fused into a single ovary with three stigmas).