Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Time: Approx.1 hour preparation Difculty: Hints: Use a strong, thick stemmed ower for the
split stem part of this experiment. The longer you leave your owers the darker the colour will go.
keep the owers 1. Always in water before the experiment. This helps keep the water owing in the stem. Fill 2 jars half full with water. about 20-30 drops of 2. Add green food colouring to one of the jars. The other should contain just plain water.
step only: Choose a 3. Adult strong and thick stemmed ower. Cut a spilt straight down the middle of the stem up to the base of the ower. one half of the stem 4. Place into the green water and the other half into the clear water.
Note - We used white lisianthus, orchids and gerberas but you can also use roses, daisies, daffodils, tulips and carnations too. We found that orchids worked very well and gerberas worked quite well. The lisianthus didnt seem to pick up the dye very easily.
all the rest of the 5. Place owers into jars with the dyed green water. Leave all the owers in a sunny spot to encourage transpiration. your ower for 6. Check results in the next few days. Observe what has happened to the split ower compared to the owers left whole.
500 Harris St Ultimo Tel: 02 6217 0111 This work is licensed under the Creative POK346 Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionPO Box Haymarket NSW 1238 Commons Attribution-NonCommercialAustralia Tel: 02 9217 0111 NonCommercial 3.0 Australia (CC BY-NC 3.0 AU) Australia ShareAlikeLicence 2.5 License.
http://play.powerhousemuseum.com
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au/
Page 2
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.