The flower that I dissected was one of these pink ones. It didn't seem to have any Sepals, which was a little bit odd. But, they may have been directly attached to the base of the flower in a way that we couldn't see them.
Didn't really do much to the petals...
After the petals were off, I was able to see the inside of the flower.
The first parts that I dissected were the Stamens. They had liquid inside. They support the pollen.
The above is what they look like when they haven't been dissected.
This was cool - got to see inside the "fruit" part of the flower to see the cells that would become seeds.
Hey, we did this at the last Xtreme Science of last year.
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