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Cutaway kōwhai

Labelled parts of kowhai flowers.

Kōwhai flowers are bird-pollinated flowers. Other flowers have different shapes, colours and arrangements of parts, depending on what pollinates them. Some petals of one flower have been removed to reveal inside.

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