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Name: mimi
Status: student
Grade: 9-12
Location: MO
Country: N/A
Date: 9/29/2005
Question:
is there a relationship between scent of a flower and their color?

Replies:
Possibly helpful:

http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/ic/lesson/

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/260/pollination.html

Anthony Brach Ph.D.

Dear Mimi,

The best way to answer this question is to go to a flower shop or step into a local field that has wildflowers. Smell the flowers and look at their color. It is really that simple.

Jim Tokuhisa


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