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Flower petal's colors attract the bees which carry the pollen from one plant to another.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe color of a petal will attract a certain pollinator, red - hummingbirds, purples - bees. Stripes on petals act as landing strips to pollinators.
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∙ 11y agoColorful petals can be helpful to the plant because if the flower is bug eating flower its petals can attract bugs for its food
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∙ 12y agoThey attract insects to come and pollinate it, by the color or shape or size.
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∙ 15y agoIt make the flower easier to see.
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What is a colourful part of a plant?
In most plants, this would be the flower; specifically, the petals.
How is a cone bearing plant pollinated?
by wind and some claim with the help of minute electical currents
What are two important functions of the petal?
The petals are what attracts pollinators to the plant. The shape and color may help determine which pollinator is allowed inside the flower. The petals may also protect the sexual organs of the plant.
Why does making nectare help flowers become pollinated?
Animals looking for nectar spread pollen
Why the flowers of the hibiscus plant have petals that are large and colourful?
It is for them to attract pollinaters and help them to fertilise female plants
What function do petals on a plant perform?
The flower is the reproductive unit of a plant. The petals in a flower help in reproduction in one way. The petals are generally brightly colored and attract insects and bees for pollination. after pollination, fertilization occurs which results in the formation of zygote and eventually a fruit with seeds, i.e, reproduction occurs.
Which parts of the flower help in reproduction?
sepals and petals
What does petals mean?
The petals help in attracting the insects for pollination The petals help in attracting the insects for pollination The petals help in attracting the insects for pollination The petals help in attracting the insects for pollination
How do flowers grow?
Once you plant a flower and water it using chemical energy, the solar energy will help the plant to grow and just by soil, water and sun the flower will start to show it petals.
Wind pollinated flowers do not make nectar why?
Nectar is produced by flowers to attract insects, bats or birds that will help to carry its pollen to other plants (and bring fresh pollen to it). If a plant is pollinated in the wind, then it doesn't need to spend the energy to make nectar.
How do petals help flowers?
they help by attracting the pollinators
How do plants without flowers pollinate?
I'm not sure what you really mean by this question (is the plant one that does not produce petals? is the petal missing because it was removed?) but it might help to think about what function petals play in plants in order to get at some reasonable possibilities. Petals are typically a sort of advertisement or signal from the plant to animals that it is attracting for the purpose of pollination. A plant with white petals, for example, might be attractive to pollinators that fly at dawn/dusk or night, because they can be seen more easily under darker conditions than other flower colors. Flowers can also have nectar guides on them, sometimes even reflective in the UV spectrum and so seen by insects but not by us. They essentially can point to the source of nectar, orienting the insect to where to land for a quick, efficient meal (which also, for the plant, results in the insect landing the same way on each flower, thus putting the pollen it collected on a previous plant into the right position for getting that pollen onto the female parts of the next plant). Petals can even make getting to the nectar (or other) reward more difficult, making it difficult for nectar theives to come in and get the reward without pollination. Once the petals have done thier job of attracting pollinators, and there is fertilization success, the petals can become a cue to the pollinators that "this plant has no more nectar", by changing shape or color. This signal makes it possible for the plant to stop making nectar in that flower, and the pollinator to move on to a different flower and not come to the conclusion that "this plant is not worth visiting", but instead, "this flower is not worth visiting". Usually, after successful fertilization, the petal's job is done, and they fall off as the fruit develops. So, removing a petal from a plant before it is pollinated may make it less likely to get its eggs fertilized, but removing it after might not make any difference at all, since the petal's job is (typically) done.
