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Why do flowers bloom?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Why Trees and Plants Are Green

Within the plant there are chemicals callim pigments. And so based on what kind of pigments you have, those are the colours it'll actually kind of exhibit. The way it works is that if it absorbs that color, we don't really see it any more. But most plants can't absorb the color green. That's why leaves are green, because we're getting a reflection of that green spectrum of light back at us. Same thing is coming true with all these different flowers. If you have a red flower, it's reflecting the red back, or purple, the purple back. So the plants need those different spectrums of light to grow,. but they don't often absorb

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