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As the name demonstrates, it is an annual plant (doesn’t come back next year). It is actually not a single flower but a cluster of flowers. Those things around the edge which are mistakenly thought of as petals are brightly colored, but sterile ‘Ray Flowers’. Sexual reproduction occurs in the disk. The central portion of the disk (called the inflorescence) is composed of many small perfect disk flowers. Each one has a stigma above the anthers and are pollinated individually by insects. If successfully pollinated the flower produces a fruit (the seed). Each disk could have hundreds, and sometimes thousands of seeds.