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Inflorescence
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Uploaded: 09/28/07 11:42 PM GMT
Inflorescence
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A beautiful view of coconut tree's inflorecence
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::cynlee
09/29/07 3:31 AM GMT
I learned a new word, Sayed. I looked infloresence up on Wikipedia. This is a very interesting post. Thank you.
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You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes
Very nice. Not only do we get an intriguing photo but a biology lesson as well! You did good. :)
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ya'aa'tey
i didnt know what inflorescence meant either so i looked it up and this is what i found...
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that can have only one main branch or be composed of complicated arrangements of branches. Speaking more strictly, it is the part of the shoot of the spermatophytes where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internodes and the phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings, adnations, connations and reduction of main and secondary axes.
The stem holding the whole inflorescence is called a peduncle and the main stem holding the flowers or more branches within the inflorescence is called the rachis. The stalk of each single flower is called a pedicel.
A flower that is not part of an inflorescence is called a solitary flower and its stalk is a peduncle.
I never knew that before now! So, another lesson from you Sayed, an a nice shot to go with the lesson! :-0
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that can have only one main branch or be composed of complicated arrangements of branches. Speaking more strictly, it is the part of the shoot of the spermatophytes where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internodes and the phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings, adnations, connations and reduction of main and secondary axes.
The stem holding the whole inflorescence is called a peduncle and the main stem holding the flowers or more branches within the inflorescence is called the rachis. The stalk of each single flower is called a pedicel.
A flower that is not part of an inflorescence is called a solitary flower and its stalk is a peduncle.
I never knew that before now! So, another lesson from you Sayed, an a nice shot to go with the lesson! :-0
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Wow...and all this before I finished my first cuppa!!! Great picture and lesson and thanks to Jan for doing the legwork on the explanation!
♫ :)PJ 005 ♪
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"I never looked for it, gave it no name; yet I knew it always, when the gift of peace came. I stood quite still for the moment that it lasted...Then the light shifted slightly and the moment passed, leaving me...with the lasting echo of its presence.." Diana Gabaldon
Great clarity to this picture Sayed, and those flowers exhibit themselves so well. :o)
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