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प्रश्न
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.
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उत्तर
Yes, flowers of some plants are cooked as a dry vegetable, gravy dish or as chutney. Flowers of banana, sahjan, kachnar, etc. are used as vegetables and gravy. Flowers of Shefalika are used for making chutney.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How many differently coloured flowers have you seen? Write their colours.
Here are some pictures of flowers. Mark a (✓) on the flowers which you recognise. Write their names too if you know.

What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?
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.
Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.
Can you think of a colour of which there is no flower?
Write the names of such flowers which are used to make scents.
Let us sing this song -
“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”
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?
You could do this in groups of five or six each.
- Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
- Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
- Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
- Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
- After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
- You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.
