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Inflorescence

noun

The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering.

The flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk.

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... country of Moreton Bay: Xylomelum, Xanthorrhaea, Zamia, Leptospermum, a new species of forest oak, which deserves the name of Casuarina VILLOSA, for its bark looks quite villous; Persoonia falcata, R. Br., a small tree about fifteen feet high, with stiff glaucous falcate leaves, and racemose inflorescence; a dwarf Persoonia, with linear leaves, the stringy-bark, and a species of Melaleuca along the creek. In my excursion I crossed the main branch of Robinson's Creek, and found the gullies of its right bank as steep ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... for a brief period that the blossoms of our sugar maple are sweet-scented; the perfume seems to become stale after a few days: but pass under this tree just at the right moment, say at nightfall on the first or second day of its perfect inflorescence, and the air is loaded with its sweetness; its perfumed breath falls upon you as its cool shadow ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... plants, the flowers towards the outside of the inflorescence are much larger and more conspicuous than the central ones. As I shall not have occasion to refer to plants of this kind in the following chapters, I will here give a few details respecting them. It is familiar to every ...

— The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species • Charles Darwin