Is there any significance of a flower that has a certain number of petals, sepals, or anthers?

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Answer 1

Yes there is a great deal of significance to it . let us look at it =

1 ) Dicot flowers have sepals and petals either 5 or 4 in number or in their multiple .

Monocots have them in 3 or multiple of three.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicotyledon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocotyled...

2 ) Presence of free sepals ; petals ; stamens and carpels is a primitive character and found in the most primitive flowering families such as Magnoliaceae ; Annonaceae.

United or fused floral parts mentioned above is considered to be an advance character and found in advanced families ( There are many ) Asteraceae is one of them.

I do not know what more you expect besides this . Othewise I would have continued .

From = A botanist .