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Make a 3-D flower

 

In pairs, pick a card each at random and construct a 3-D flower from the play doh. Do not show your card to your partner. Pass the completed 'flower model' to your partner and have them describe the flower in botanically correct terms.

 

Green = Sepals

Pink = Petals

Yellow = Androecium (stamens)

Blue = Gynoecium (carpels; pistils)

 

 

Below are the cards for the 3-D Flower model exercise.

 

Print, cut and laminate; add others as you like.

 

Epigynous flower with the

hypanthium adnate to the ovary

 

Epigynous flower with a

conspicuous hypanthium

 

Perigynous flower

 

 

Complete flower

 

 

Incomplete flower

 

 

Flower with free carpels

 

 

Flower with 3-fused carpels

 

 

Flower with stamens adnate

to the corolla tube

 

A typical flower belonging to

the family Brassicaceae

 

A typical flower belonging to

the family Rosaceae

 

A 'primitive' Magnoliad- type flower

 

 

A typical monocot flower

 

 

Actinomorphic flower

 

 

Zygomorphic Flower

 

 

A flower with a superior ovary

exhibiting a hypanthium

 

Eudicot flower with free sepals

and petals

 

Eudicot flower with fused petals

forming a corolla tube

 

 

Hypogynous flower

 

 

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