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Name: Rebecca Lee S.
Status: educator
Age: 40s
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Date: 1999-2001
Question:
Do all flowers have only one pistil? I know that each sunflower has more since they are made up of many individual flowers.

Replies:
It is different depending upon the plant species.

http://www.floridagardener.com/misc/flowerforms.htm

http://www.wisc.edu/botit/400/Lab/LabWK03Fruitkey.html

Anthony R. Brach, PhD.


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