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what is the name of the bright red leaves (often incorrectly called petals) that are found on the top of a poinsettia plant, they actually are beneath a cluster of tiny flowers?
○ sepals
○ bracts
○ tepals
○ petals
Bracts are modified leaves that can be brightly - colored and are often mistaken for petals. In poinsettia plants, the bright red structures are bracts located beneath the tiny flowers. Sepals are the outermost part of a flower bud, tepals are undifferentiated petal - sepal structures in some flowers, and petals are the true colorful parts of a flower.
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B. bracts