Flowers are many shapes, sizes and colours. Some are big and colourful. Others are tiny. Some flowers look like leaves. Even trees and grasses have flowers. Most plants have flowers so they can make seeds. Seeds can grow into new plants.

 

 

 

 

 

This big pink rose is easy to see.

The goal of every plant is to make the next generation of plants. Most plants do this by producing seeds. Flowers contain all the parts that a plant needs to make seeds. Insects and animals help too. This flower’s bright colour and strong sweet scent make it easy for them to spot.

 

 

 

 

This is the world’s biggest flower.

The Rafflesia flower is the world’s biggest flower. It is found in the jungles of Malaysia and can grow up to one metre wide. Instead of growing in the ground, it attaches itself to other plants. It smells of rotting meat!

 

 

 

 

One sunflower is made of lots of ting flowers.

Flowers come in all shapes and sizes. Tulips have one bell-shaped flower at the top of the stem. Foxgloves have lots of flowers all the way up the stem. A sunflower looks like one big flower. If you look closely you will see that it is made up of lots of tiny flowers, called florets.