VARIOUS FLOWERS

 VARIOUS FLOWERS

Man has always been fascinated by flowers. The fossil record shows that Neanderthals used flowers in burial rites. During the middle Ages, flowers were used in politics and ritual. The Victorian era placed high value on them, with the wearing of flowers equated with being well-dressed. Folklore is also filled with stories and remedies of flowers--from curing colds to soothing a broken heart. Flowering plants or angiosperms are a widely diverse group of plants, with over 250,000 species worldwide. They appeared relatively recent in the geological history and quickly evolved and spread. Today, flowers can be found in most any ecosystem on the planet, providing the basis for wildlife distribution and diversity.

Flowering plants have four basic structures: petals, sepals, stamens and carpels. The carpels form the female reproductive part of the flower, sometimes merged into a single unit called the pistil. The male portion of the flower is contained within the stamen. The variations on these four parts is what makes flowers such a diverse group Flowers of a given habitat have evolved to withstand the environmental stresses it must endure. Because of the diversity of habitats, there is wide diversity in flowers. For example, the unusual shape of the pitcher plant with its tube-like shape serves the purpose of trapping insects in its peat bog habitat. The orchid family also provides some unusual and often stunning flowers within its approximately 20,000 species. In the race to attract pollinators, flowers have evolved to capture any niche that gives them a competitive edge.

The purpose of the flower is to reproduce seed. Reproduction requires a means of pollination for most flowers. Environmental agents such as wind and water can move pollen plant to plant. Bees, naturally, are an important pollinator. Other insects also play that role. Flies, for example, are attracted to the strong scent of wild ginger and act as pollinators. Animals such as birds and bats fulfill that function as well. Accidental pollination can occur from wildlife and even people. Flowers, through reproduction, provide seeds and food, which is perhaps their most important function. Some flowers, such as mullein with its anti-inflammatory properties, have medicinal uses. Flowers have other non-tangible benefits. A 2001 Rutgers study linked the presence of flowers with a decrease in depression in seniors. Increases in productivity in the workplace have also been demonstrated by the presence of flowers.

All of us like to look at those pretty flowers blooming all around, especially during winter and spring. Remember that tree laden with yellow flowers, which hang like bunches of grapes? How often have you wondered: What's that flower? Nobody around you seems to know the answer. There was a time, when a lot of people knew about a lot of flowers. But for the city bred individual, flowers are only like pretty pictures. The pace of city life tends to alienate the individual from Mother Nature, which brought him into existence in the first place. Flowers of India  is aimed at having information about all the flowers found in India, with their common names, especially in Indian languages, pictures and habitat, easily available in one place. This is meant to be a place you can look at if you saw a flower and wanted to know more about it. Knowing more about flowers, and then going out and having a look at them, will be more like communing with nature. Flowers of India

Many thousands of years flowers personify beauty, pleasure and perfection of nature. Flowers give many things to everybody, and it does not matter if you are rich or poor, they give you awonderful world, in which you feel happy. Therefore people always try to decorate with these surprising gifts of nature not only the celebration and gala days of their life, but also everyday life, in which, people need to feel even more pleasure during their life on Earth.It seems that mother-nature presented us these wonderful creatures which during thousands of years bring in our life beauty, pleasure, and give us good mood and emotional health in any time of the year. According to the scientists opinion there are more than 270 000 types of flowers. And each flower in his own way is beautiful and unusual and brings a part of pleasure in our life in order to do it happier.At all nations of the world flowers associate with heat, sun, spring and pleasure. And it doesn’t matter if it is winter, summer, autumn or spring outside. Flowers always remain symbols of good mood and wonderful seasons – spring and summer.Each flower is shrouded by illusive mysterious aura, and magic mood which is given to all people without exception, whether it is a man or a woman, a small child or a grown up person
The flowers of California,Desription of some of the numerous blossoms found in the Golden State-Their popular names..Although the Springtime is now left far behind, and a popular prejudice very justly associates the Spring with wild flowers, yet the fields and hillsides are in bloom through many interior valleys, and in the mountains the flowers are at their height. Especially this year, there were more flowers in June than in April, and there will still be throughout July and August a great many familiar blossoms.
                                                                                                   Prof. John Kurakar