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Re: [aroid-l] what does inflorescence mean?

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
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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

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