what does inflorescence mean?

From: SongString at aol.com on 2003.06.04 at 14:57:05(10308) What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something that glows in the dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the A.Titanum is the largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another flower that is larger in the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? Nancy

From: "Val Gillman" hortma at totheinter.net> on 2003.06.04 at 15:42:26(10309) I think inflorescence means that on the stalk there are many flowers- like the a. titanum has hundreds of tiny ones. maybe there is a big flower one to a stem, somewhere. just guessing Valerie > What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something that glows in the +More > dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the A.Titanum is the > largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another flower that is larger in > the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? > > If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? >

From: moto_do at t-online.de (Thomas Mottl) on 2003.06.04 at 15:52:51(10310) Nancy, Inflorescence means "flowering" Glow in the dark is phosphorescence A. titanum has not the biggest inflorescence in the World Each apple tree has a bigger inflorescence. A. titanum has hundred or thousands of inflorescences like most Aroids, the cluster of those inflorescences is very big. Look at a Sunflower, there are hundreds of inflorescences in the middle of the"flower" but each of it is a real botanical flower and produce a seed. Hopefully I am right :-) Regards Thomas +More Am Mittwoch, 04.06.03 um 16:57 Uhr schrieb SongString@aol.com: What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something that glows in the dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the A.Titanum is the largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another flower that is larger in the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? Nancy

From: Leslie Georgeson skinnychick2 at yahoo.com> on 2003.06.04 at 16:02:36(10311) Hi Nancy, An inflorescence is basically a flower, or, to be more descriptive, "the manner of development and arrangement of flowers on a stem." Also called a "flower cluster." As far as I know (and my knowledge is thus far limited), A. Titanum is the largest flower in the world. Leslie +More SongString@aol.com wrote: What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something that glows in the dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the A.Titanum is the largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another flower that is larger in the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? Nancy --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).

From: "Petra Schmidt" petra at plantdelights.com> on 2003.06.04 at 16:08:39(10312) Hi there...Time to buy a good book on botanical terms and my favorite is: A Dictionary of Botany by R. John Little and C. Eugene Jones - they define inflorescence as: "the arrangement of flowers on a floral axis; a floral cluster" which means the individual flowers are clustered together on one stalk...Amorph. titanum has the largest inflorescence in the world; Rafflesia has the largest individual flower in the world... Petra +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: [aroid-l] what does inflorescence mean? > What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something that glows in the > dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the A.Titanum is the > largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another flower that is larger in > the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? > > If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? > > Nancy

From: "Albert Huntington" amh at ieee.org> on 2003.06.04 at 16:45:34(10313) Hi Nancy, I'm probably going to end up repeating information already provided by others, but here goes... Inflorescence ( not to be confused with fluorescence ) is a technical term for something us non-botanists would usually just call a flower. In an aroid, it typically means the spathe and the spadix including all the little tiny male and female flowers attached to the spadix. If one wants to get all technical-like, the largest inflorescence probably belongs to the Talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera - but it doesn't look like just one flower to us non technical people - it looks like a cluster of flowers - a 30 foot tall cluster of flowers. There are also some agave and bromeliad species which produce pretty large inflorescences. The largest single flower is likely Rafflesia arnoldii, a parasitic plant that grows in southeast asia. It gets about 3 feet wide. So far, nobody has been able to grow this one in captivity successfully. +More So what do we have? Amorphophallus titanum - the largest inflorescence that looks like a single flower to laypeople. Not a title that trips off the tongue, but still a pretty darn cool plant. There's some more information about plant record breakers at: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm --Albert --- SongString@aol.com wrote: > What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something > that glows in the dark, but that can't be right. I know > the flower of the .Titanum is the largest inflorescence, > but does that mean there is another flower that is larger > in the world, because it is not categorized as an > inflorescence? > > If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? > > Nancy ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the EV1 webmail system at mail.ev1.net

From: Jonathan Ertelt jonathan.ertelt at vanderbilt.edu> on 2003.06.04 at 17:10:32(10314) >I think inflorescence means that on the stalk there are many flowers- like >the a. titanum has hundreds of tiny ones. maybe there is a big flower one to >a stem, somewhere. >just guessing >Valerie Without doing any research into the validity of the calim, I believe that the largest single flower on a stem actually belong to the parasitic genus Rafflesia; Rafflesia arnoldii is the species I believe. At somewhere approaching three feet across, it doesn't match the size of Amorphophallus, but it is an individual flower. Largest aroid will be tough, since all aroids (I believe) have the spadix type infloresence with lots of little flowers. Jonathan +More Jonathan Ertelt, Greenhouse Manager Department of Biological Sciences Vanderbilt University Box 35-1634, Sta. B Nashville, TN 37235 USA (615) 322-4054 jonathan.ertelt@vanderbilt.edu

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2003.06.04 at 17:33:50(10315) The flower of A. titanum is but 1 cm in diam. Go figure that!!!!!!! > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu > [mailto:aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu]Namens SongString@aol.com +More > Verzonden: woensdag 4 juni 2003 16:57 > Aan: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu > Onderwerp: [aroid-l] what does inflorescence mean? > > > What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something > that glows in the > dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the > A.Titanum is the > largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another > flower that is larger in > the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? > > If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? > > Nancy

From: Susan snalice at dslextreme.com> on 2003.06.04 at 18:41:09(10316) Nancy, The largest true flower (one flower, one bloom) is (unless there is another one that someone knows about that hasn't been mentioned yet) is Rafflesia Kerri Meijer: http://www.geocities.com/pantoorat/Buaphut.html This flower is truely just one flower. I can't get down to the nitty gritty of flower parts showing the reason it is just one flower, but it is. The largest 'inflorescence' (MANY flowers all on one stalk) is Amorphophallus titanum. I think this can be considered the world largest 'bloom', but not 'flower'. Would that be correct? Susan +More 6/4/03 7:57:05 AM, SongString@aol.com wrote: >What does inflorescence mean? It reminds me of something that glows in the >dark, but that can't be right. I know the flower of the A.Titanum is the >largest inflorescence, but does that mean there is another flower that is larger in >the world, because it is not categorized as an inflorescence? > >If there is a larger flower than the A. titanum, what is it? > >Nancy > >

From: piaba piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2003.06.04 at 18:59:00(10317) > If one wants to get all technical-like, the > largest > inflorescence probably belongs to the Talipot palm, +More > Corypha > umbraculifera - but it doesn't look like just one > flower to us non > technical people - it looks like a cluster of > flowers - a 30 foot > tall cluster of flowers. i think Am. titanum is the largest UNBRANCHED inflorescence in the world, whereas the above mentioned palm has the largest BRANCHED inflorescence. i have never seen such palm but that's what i recall reading. tsuh yang __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com

From: "Neil Carroll" ncarz at charter.net> on 2003.06.04 at 22:01:30(10319) > > which means the individual flowers are clustered together on one > stalk...Amorph. titanum has the largest inflorescence in the world; > Rafflesia has the largest individual flower in the world... > Petra +More > > Petra, I thought that A. titanum was the largest UNBRANCHED inflorescence. Arn't there some palms that claim THE largest inflorescence? Neil C.

From: MossyTrail at cs.com on 2003.06.05 at 03:25:05(10322) "Petra Schmidt" wrote: >Hi there...Time to buy a good book on botanical terms and my favorite is: ?A >Dictionary of Botany by R. John Little and C. Eugene Jones - they define >inflorescence as: +More >"the arrangement of flowers on a floral axis; a floral cluster" > That is the best explanation of the several. Say you have a foxglove. That long spike with all the flowers on it is the inflorescence. With Agave, I would say that big, tree-like structure is the inflorescence, because an Agave not in flower does not have it. It can get confusing with asters; that is, is each head an inflorescence, or is the whole cluster of heads the inflorescence? Incidentally, isn't it intriguing that the three examples we discussed for largest flower/inflorescence (A. titanum, Rafflesia, Talipot Palm) all live in the same part of the world? Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2003.06.05 at 13:01:57(10325) > >Hi there...Time to buy a good book on botanical terms and my > favorite is: ?A > >Dictionary of Botany by R. John Little and C. Eugene Jones - > they define +More > >inflorescence as: > >"the arrangement of flowers on a floral axis; a floral cluster" This is just about the thing. A true floral axis is not always visible/present as an inflorecence can also be a number of flowers coming from one common point. So, Amorphophallus titanum (and all aroids) have inflorescences, that BTW DO seem to imitate one unitary flower with that spathe encircling it and acting as a "corolla". Am. titanum indeed has the largest unbranched inflorescence. The largest single flower belongs to Rafflesia arnoldii. > > > That is the best explanation of the several. Say you have a > foxglove. That long spike with all the flowers on it is the > inflorescence. With Agave, I would say that big, tree-like > structure is the inflorescence, because an Agave not in > flower does not have it. > > It can get confusing with asters; that is, is each head an > inflorescence, or is the whole cluster of heads the inflorescence? Asters and e.g. spurges have an even higher level of organisation where individual inflorescemces may themselves be small and clustered so as to form a higher level inforescence (sometimes called a synflorescence.....are ye all with me???). In fact many aroids also have a synflorecence as more inflorescences may appear from one and the same point (e.g. Syngonium). Cheerio, Lord P.

From: MossyTrail at cs.com on 2003.06.06 at 02:50:42(10329) "Wilbert Hetterscheid" wrote: >> It can get confusing with asters; that is, is each head an >> inflorescence, or is the whole cluster of heads the inflorescence? > +More >Asters and e.g. spurges have an even higher level of organisation where >individual inflorescemces may themselves be small and clustered so as to >form a higher level inforescence (sometimes called a synflorescence.....are >ye all with me???). In fact many aroids also have a synflorecence as more >inflorescences may appear from one and the same point (e.g. Syngonium). > Synflorescence...that is a good word. Syn = coming together, so, a coming together of inflorescences. I'll remember that one. I suppose that some Peperomia also have that, as they have a branched stalk with a "spadix" on each branch. (e.g., P. peltilimba) Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large

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