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Flowers for food: Sunflower buds taste similar to artichokes but taste bittersweet after the flower opens.
Flower sexuality:In the majority of species, individual flowers have both pistils and stamens as described above. These flowers are described by botanists as being perfect, bisexual, or hermaphrodite. Medicinal uses of the rose: Long ago rose petals were used to control bleeding because they contain an astringent called tannin.
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