Urgent - please help to identify this flower

Hello everyone

My child grew the flower (photos below) from seed, at primary school, but has since left the school.
He needs to know (within the next 12 or so hours) what the flower is called, as he has to write about it for a piece of school work for his new secondary school and the work has to be handed in on Monday first thing (its now Sunday morning early hours - talk about leaving it till the last minute!)
I don't recognise the flower, but I wonder if someone knowledgeable here would be able to help identify it please?
Also, could someone let me know if it is a perennial or not? I'm really hoping it is, so that it will flower again next year, and be a constant reminder of his primary school.
Any help would be HUGELY appreciated.
Thanks ever so much.

 

It's Nasturtium GF, very easy to grow from seed,but it is not realy a perenial and will be killed by frost. I suggest you let the flowers seed and keep them until next May, sow it in compost and you will then have new plants, children of the mother plant......:gnthb:

 

This plant is a Nasturtium, which is easily grown from seed. It is a hardy annual, so won't come back next year. However, it produces seeds which are easily identifiable, and generally self seeds itself around.
Hope this helps your son!

 

Hello Green Fingerz
as Roders and kassi state this is a Nasturtium. Very easy to grow from seed , and mine do self seed every year. Another interesting fact is that both the flower and the leaves are edible and can be used in a salad . Now I have never tried this with my chips and egg , but this site may give your child some facts to put in the report............:thumb:
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds1/product/6752/3/

 

It is also to be found under the latin name Tropaeolum majus. Common name nasturtium.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rls=p,com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA_en-GB&q=tropaeolum%20majus&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1239&bih=528

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeolum_majus

 

Roders, Kassi, Harry S, and Silver surfer thank you so much for your responses.
I feel a real doughnut now because when it first flowered, I instinctively thought it was a Nasturtium, having grown them myself many years ago. I decided to google it, but the images I found did not match up to the exact colouring of my son's flower, so I ruled it out. I then typed in "orange and yellow flower" and hunted through tonnes of images, but still did not find an image that matched my son's flower, hence my post on here.
You guys have been really helpful. I now need to find out more precise information about the plant, eg history. Basically, my son has to choose a photo which represents a country, so he chose this photo in the hope that he could say that it represents England, and then write a 200 word "essay" about how the photo represents England.
So, if anyone does know anything more about the history of Nasturtium, I would be very grateful to hear from you. Meanwhile I will try to google it myself.
Wish my son would learn not to leave everything till the last minute! .... lol.
Rather stupidly too, I dead-headed the flowers, in the hope that more would come - wish I hadn't now :(

Thanks again everyone x

 

Hi Silver surfer
Thanks for your message and links - I have just been looking at your links and the other kind peoples' links too. They are REALLY helpful and have provided lots of information for him to use.
He chose this flower because it was personal to him, as he grew it himself, and I think that made it all the more special for him.
Now just got to hunt out some info about bees too ... lol (as a bee landed on his flower and we took a photo of the bee on the flower too, and that's the photo he will be using).

Once again thanks so much everyone, especially for the speedy replies too. I can't thank you enough. Big thanks from my son too

 

Maybe the childs work should be his own