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Quiz – The Flower Edition
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I don’t know the answers to the first three, but a bract is a part of the plant that looks like the petals of a flower, but isn’t, usually it is just a brightly coloured leaf, close to the actual flower which is quite tiny. The bright “petals” on a bougainvillea are bracts.
And that flower is a corpse plant. It apparently smells like rotting human flesh. It flowers once in a very long time, for a short time. The flower is apparently huge-tall as a person. One flowered in a botanical gardens locally (Qld) recently, it made the news.
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