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प्रश्न
Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.
- Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
- 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?
- Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
- Also, observe how many days the same flower took to dry.
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उत्तर
It takes about 4 to 5 days for a bud to bloom into a flower.
- It was a rose plant.
- When I first saw this bud, the date was 1st February. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is 5th February. It took 5 days.
- The bud of a hibiscus takes about seven days and the sunflower’s bud takes about seven to eight days.
- Hibiscus takes about 30 days to become dry and sunflower takes about 30 to 40 days to become dry.
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Here are some pictures of flowers. Mark a (✓) on the flowers which you recognise. Write their names too if you know.
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From the pictures given above, and other flowers that you know, give names of two which
| grow on trees | ______ | ______ |
| grow on bushes | ______ | ______ |
| grow on creepers | ______ | ______ |
| grow on water plants | ______ | ______ |
| bloom only at night | ______ | ______ |
| bloom in the day and close at night | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers can you recognise by their scent, even with your eyes closed? | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers bloom all year round? | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers bloom only in certain months? | ______ | ______ |
Are there any trees or plants which never have any flowers? Find out and write.
You must have seen buds on the plants. If there are any flower-bearing plants growing near your school or home, look carefully at their buds.
Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.
Are flowers cooked in your home as a dry vegetable, a gravy dish or as a chutney? Find out which flowers are used for these.
Find out and write the names of some more flowers that are used for making colours.
Can you think of a colour of which there is no flower?
Have you ever seen anyone selling flowers anywhere? If there are any flower-sellers nearby ask them these questions and write -
- What are the different flowers that they sell? Ask them the names of three flowers.
- Where do they bring these flowers from?
- Why do people buy flowers?
- In what forms do flower-sellers sell their flowers? Look at these pictures. Tick against those forms that you have seen.
Any other form that you have seen - - Have you seen flowers offered at many religious places?
- What do we do when they dry up?
- How will you use them?
Some flowers are used in different forms - like rose and marigold are used in garlands and as loose petals too.
- Find out the prices of these different forms.
One flower ______ One garland ______ One bouquet ______ - Has the flower-seller learnt to make bouquets or a net of flowers from anybody? From whom?
- Would they like the other members of their family to do this work? Why?
