I might have it mixed up, but do flower pedals not have chlorophyll? Or does their chlorophyll absorb green light and reflect other lights? Where do flower pedals get their color from?
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Flower petals usually don’t photosynthesize. Instead, they’re purely for improving reproduction.
Most flower colors come from the same chemicals that make fruits colorful: anthocyanins (red-purple-blue-black colors) and carotenoids (usually red-orange-yellow but sometimes purple too). For those flowers that *are* green, it’s usually chlorophyll doing that. And with anthocyanins, carotenoids, and chlorophyll, you cover basically the whole visible spectrum (and, it turns out, quite a bit of the ultraviolet spectrum as well, which is visible to many pollinating insects and some birds.)
Even actual leaves usually contain non-chlorophyll pigments, though only chlorophyll actually does photosynthesis. You can see these pigments in the fall with deciduous trees. Usually these are also anthocyanins or carotenoids.
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