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Also known as bloom, flowers, blossom

Flowers, also known as blossoms and blooms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants. Typically, they are structured in four circular levels around the end of a stalk. These include: sepals, which are modified leaves that support the flower; petals, often designed to attract pollinators; male stamens, where pollen is presented; and female gynoecia, where pollen is received and its movement is facilitated to the egg. When flowers are arranged in a group, they are known collectively as an inflorescence.

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A flower is a structure that functions in plant reproduction. It is a component of the shoot, inflorescence, and Angiosperms. The flower contains the gynoecium, androecium, and perianth. It is distinct from the flowering plant and Malva.

The subject appears in Category:Flowers and Category:Flower. It is associated with the Commons categories and gallery titled Flowers. Unicode characters representing the subject include ⚘ and 🥀. The hashtag flowers is used in relation to this topic.

Sources describing the subject include the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, and Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. It is maintained by WikiProject Plants. The topic is on the focus list for Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have and Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

109,655 papers

Gigantea: Uncovering New Functions in Flower Development.ReviewGenes · 2020Brandoli C, Petri C, Egea-Cortines M et al.DOI: 10.3390/genes11101142
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology · 2021Freytes SN, Canelo M, Cerdán PDDOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102049
Trends in flower symmetry evolution revealed through phylogenetic and developmental genetic advances.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014Hileman LCDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0348
Flower color polymorphism of a wild Iris on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.BMC plant biology · 2023Zhou ZL, Wang GY, Wang XL et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04642-9
Flower color modification by engineering of the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway: practical perspectives.ReviewBioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry · 2010Tanaka Y, Brugliera F, Kalc G et al.DOI: 10.1271/bbb.100358
Gallic acid affects chamomile flower's essential oil.Natural product research · 2024Ahmed AMA, Khalid KADOI: 10.1080/14786419.2023.2241152
Beyond floral initiation: the role of flower bud dormancy in flowering time control of annual plants.ReviewJournal of experimental botany · 2024Penfield SDOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae223
The Critical Role of miRNAs in Regulation of Flowering Time and Flower Development.ReviewGenes · 2020Waheed S, Zeng LDOI: 10.3390/genes11030319

Wikidata facts

Part of: Angiosperms
Has part: perianth
Image: Flores.gif
Has use: plant reproduction

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Unicode character: 🥀
topic's main category: Category:Flower
Commons category: Flowers
Commons gallery: Flowers
different from: Malva
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
hashtag: flowers
exact match: turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=flowerflower
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Plants

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