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Practice each question, then open the answer or worked solution.
What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?
A bud is smaller than a flower. Buds are actually the very early phase of flower formation. It’s the bud that develops into a flower.
Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.
(a) Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
It takes about 4 to 5 days for a bud to bloom into a flower. It was a rose plant.
(b) When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
When you first saw this bud, the date was 2nd March. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is 7th March. It took 5 days for the bud to become a flower.
(c) Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
The bud of a hibiscus takes about seven days and a sunflower’s bud takes about seven to eight days.
(d) Also observe how many days the same flower took to dry.
Hibiscus takes about 30 days to become dry and sunflower takes about 30 to 40 days to become dry.
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