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Flowers play important roles in our everyday lives. They are beneficial to all of us. When someone is in the hospital, we bring flowers to cheer them up. Flowers are a great "pick-me-up." You send flowers to your loved ones on special occasions like Mother's Day or on birthdays to show how much you care. You might even get cuttings out of your garden to brighten up a room or for the fragrance.

Flowers also have healing properties. Not only do flowers help relieve stress, they are used in medicine. For example, rose petals are most commonly used by women for relieving heavy periods. Rose hips are found in vitamin C. Hibiscus flowers are extremely helpful in diuretics. Passionflower calms the nerves and helps you sleep. Violets reduce fever. Chrysanthemums are good for headaches and high blood pressure.
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The primary function of the flower is reproduction or pollination. There are three steps that the flower goes through to produce other flowers. First is pollination. Most flowers rely on butterflies, bees, bats or hummingbirds to assist in the pollination process, to carry the pollen from one plant to another, while others rely on the wind for transport of pollen. One might say, "Flowers dress themselves to attract insects and the like to them." This is point on, because this is actually the mechanism that the flower develops so the "assistants" will be attracted to them. Some flowers use an aroma to attract their pollinators. Pollination is the way that flowers get their gene

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Facts About Sunflowers
1. Sunflowers are very beautiful flowers and are used for decoration.
Sunflower plants can be from 3 to 18 feet tall. One sunflower can have up to
2000 seeds.
2. Sunflowers are also an important crop. There are more than sixty different kinds of sunflowers growing in the United States, Europe, Japan and
Russia. Sunflowers originally came from the United States.
3. There are two

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