eli5: How do flowers come in a wide variety of colors besides green, despite most plants’ chlorophyll reflecting green light?

Question

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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The flowers don’t do photosynthesis, which is why plant needs a few green leaves before it has the energy to spend on flowers (unless it has massive stores of energy from a parent plant in a bulb or something).