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Posted: 30 Jun 2013

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THE REASON FOR FLOWERS •

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Leaves

Leaves
A tree's leaves may be ever so good,
So may its bark, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root
It never will show much flower or fruit.

But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
Leaves for smooth and bark for rough,
Leaves and bark may be tree enough.

Some giant trees have bloom so small
They might as well have none at all.
Late in life I have come on fern.
Now lichens are due to have their turn.

I bade men tell me which in brief,
Which is fairer, flower or leaf.
They did not have the wit to say,
Leaves by night and flowers by day.

Leaves and bar, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood.

Robert Frost
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. . . . Photons in sunlight strike the tightly stacked grana within chloroplasts, the green microscopic units inside the leaves of plants. Through a complex photosynthetic biochemistry, sugars are made from carbon dioxide in the air, and water in the leaves, when light strikes chlorophyll molecules. A portion of these sweet sugars are moved from the leaves into a flower’s nectaries, often in crevices hidden at the bases of flowers, between the petals. The sugars manufactured are usually the “big three,” the double molecules of sucrose, and the single molecule of glucose and fructose. These molecules are transferred to nectar glands from leaves via special interconnecting tubes known as the phloem. ` Page 180

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