cauliflorous species

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The World of Gourds
... flowers of both species develop from buds that literally grow out of the main trunk and limbs, a condition termed cauliflory. Like many other large-flowered cauliflorous species, calabash trees are ... (Crescentia cujete) literally grow out of the trunk of this striking tropical tree. The Cauliflorous Calabash Tree Pollination And Fruit Development Although some popular dictionaries define a vegetable ...
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Cauliflory
... heights above the ground. Many cauliflorous species have capitalized on an insect fauna that lives near the ground level. According to Stebbins, present-day cauliflorous species living in the rain forest ... of bats that relish the cauliflorous fruit clusters on tropical figs (Ficus species). It is also true that "bat flowers" are often produced by non-cauliflorous species in which the blossoms ...
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Key to Native and Naturalized Genera of Ingeae
... two abruptly pinnate lvs]. 19. Petiolar nectaries wanting......................Calliandra ................................and most species of Zapoteca 19. Petiolar nectary between or below the proximal (or ... mm; widespread....... ..................................................Zygia 25. Plant not, or only in small part, cauliflorous, all or most unit inflorescences borne on stems of the current ...
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MBG: Research: Projects: South America: Venezuelan Guayana
... , sometimes simple; terminal leaflet often replaced by a tendril. Inflorescence terminal, axillary, or cauliflorous, paniculate, racemose, or reduced to a fascicle or a single flower. Calyx synsepalous, usually ... not occur in all species. The major economic importance of the family is in horticulture, with many species cultivated for their showy flowers. Some species of Tabebuia and related ...
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Durio zibethinus
... colored on the abaxial (underside) surface. Flowers are perfect, whitish, with a strong odor, in cauliflorous (produced directly on large branches) clusters of 3-30, blooming at night and primarily ... order to impart disease resistance to the root fungus Phytophthora palmivora. In India, the related species Cullenia excelsa is used as a rootstock to promote early fruiting. Durian requires a ...
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Cashew
... family, a medium sized family with 50 genera and 750 species. More recent DNA evidence reclassifies the genus under the Malvaceae ... compressed dichasial cymes of a few to several individuals. Cacao is cauliflorous, with flowers arising on old wood at the site of a ... those from Dasyheolea and Stylobezzia are also involved, as are some species of aphids and thrips. Fruit The fruit, erroneously called a ...
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