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Liliaceae

 8-Tulip flower

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As in most members of the Liliaceae, tulip flowers have 3 sepals and 3 petals that are alike, 6 stamens, and a syncarpous gynoecium of 3 carpels.
Photo taken by K. R. Robertson at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
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