Color Changing Carnations - Sick Science!

Where does the water go when a plant is watered? With this experiment, children can discover for themselves how essential the functions of roots and stems are to plant growth. As the colored water is absorbed, students will be able to see how the water is absorbed into the plant and the petals of the carnation change color.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Color
• Changing
• Carnations
• Sick
• Science
• Cool
• Experiment
• Steve
• Spangler

[animegirl2083]

now the real question is will it blend?

[AngryLlamaz]

those are vases? I take shots out of those things!

[imkutiecarma]

My friend did this but it didn't work

[iheartnicole1]

My preschool teacher did this with celery.

[lpskittykat123]

the flower needs water and takes the red water and feeds it to the petals and they turned red i think

[WesBullock]

The xylem tubes in the stem absorb the water in the beakers. After the stem was cut to half, each stem was put into different beakers, one beaker was filled with red water and the other was filled with plain water. Half of the xylem tubes were in the red coloured water, therefore half of the flower turned red.

[SCZMJGclub]

Double rainbow carnation all the way across the sky!!

[Gunnardotson12]

the carnation absorbs the colored water and changes the plant color.

[hl888]

Can you change the color in a plant with soil?

[JuliaaF98]

we used to do this every year in school but with daffodils!:D

[BeckieTenshiChan]

@angel33575 yes, as long as the flower starts off white, or else the colour won't show as good.

[rhenz0404]

XYLEM VEINS.

VEINS ON THE STEM CAN SUCK WATER EVEN WITHOUT THE ROOTS.