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Name: David M.
Status: student
Age: 9
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Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2002
Question:
What colors are not found in flowers?

Replies:
I think that every color is represented by flowers of various species (kinds).

http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/flowersall.html

Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.

I am not a botanist, but it seems to me that flowers come in all colors, although there seems to be fewer species that have blue coloration. In addition, some flowers have "colors" in the infrared and ultraviolet. Pollinating insects can "see" these, but we humans cannot.

Vince Calder


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