Flowers

Flowers grace our literature, our fashions, our religious ceremonies. They announce our rites of passage and signify our celebrations. Made into boutonnieres and garlands, they advertise our status, our purpose, and our demeanor for the day.

The beauty and the scent of flowers did not emerge just for human delectation. Among the plants that produce them, namely the angiosperms (the more than 370,000 species of flowering plants on the word,) their purpose is purely sexual. Flowers serve to attract pollinators, mostly insects, but in addition and according to species, a large array of birds and even a few mammals. The relationship is symbiotic, “mutually symbiotic” to be precise, in which both partners benefit from the relationship ~ Page 150