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Inflorescence

noun
1.
The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms.  Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering.
2.
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


Words linked to "Inflorescence" :   spike, ontogeny, maturation, umbel, ament, flower cluster, anthesis, growing, cyme, blossoming, bract, flower, catkin, blossom, growth, flower head, bloom, ontogenesis, development, corymb, efflorescence


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