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... suckers either at the base or higher up. Leaves are 10-15 ft long, pinnately compound palm "fronds" with spines occupying the lower third of the rachis, and leaflets the distal ... have separate male and female plants. Whether staminate or pistillate, flowers are borne on a compound spadix in leaf axils, having 50-150 lateral branches. A dozen or more inflorescences are produced ...
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Oil Palm
... compound spadix with 100-200 branches, initially enclosed in a spathe or bract that splits 2 weeks prior to anthesis. Male (left) and female (right) inflorescences of oil palm. Both are a compound spadix. Note the beetle pollinators foraging on the male flowers at the tips of the spadix branches. Pollination Oil palms are primarily insect ...
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Angiosperm Families - Araceae Juss.
... free floating (Pistia). Leaves when hydrophytic, submerged, or emergent. Heterophyllous (often entire/lobed compound), or not heterophyllous. Leaves small to very large; alternate; spiral, or distichous; petiolate ... (sometimes), or not coalescing. Dispersal unit the fruit, or the inflorescence (the spadix sometimes forming a syncarp). Seeds endospermic, or non-endospermic. Endosperm when present, ...
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Angiosperm Families - Cyclanthaceae Dum.
... spiral (usually), or distichous; ‘herbaceous’, or leathery; petiolate; sheathing; simple, or compound; when compound palmate, or bifoliolate (Cyclanthus). Lamina when simple dissected (usually), or entire; when ... fruit. The multiple fruits usually coalescing (to form a fleshy syncarp, the spadix twisting and becoming screwlike in Cyclanthus). Seeds copiously endospermic. Endosperm oily, or ...
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Illustrated Botanical Terms (John Lindley 1848)
... ensiform -- 15 equally pinnate or paripinnate -- 10 equitant -- 13 erose -- 6 falcate -- 38 fascicle, compound corymb -- 84 fascicled -- 13 flabelliform -- 64 foxglove-shaped or digitaliform -- 85 fringed or fimbriate ... 23 serrate -- 4 sessile -- 2 shaggy -- 14 sheathing -- 9 simple umbel -- 79 sinuate -- 10 spadix and spathe -- 83 spatulate -- 11 spike -- 76 spindle-shaped or fusiform -- 27 spiny ...
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Inflorescence Terminology (Part 1)
... male trees. Flowers & Multiple Fruits Of The Mulberry Family 5. Spadix: Inflorescence Of The Arum Family (Araceae) The spadix is the characteristic inflorescence of the remarkable arum family (Araceae). ... flowers (no pedicels). Raceme: Unbranched inflorescence with flowers on pedicels. Panicle: A branched or compound raceme (i.e. main rachis with branches bearing flowers on pedicels). Corymb: Flat- ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... are composed of one carpel (a simple pistil). The terms apocarpous and syncarpous refer to compound pistils composed of more than one carpel. Apocarpous flowers contain two or more distinct carpels ... berry subtended by a jagged-edged bract where the original flower was attached. The fleshy spadix of Monstera deliciosa is also a multiple fruit because it is derived from numerous, tightly ...
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Blooming of Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at BBG
... over the course of several weeks. First, a fleshy flower spike (spadix) shoots up (see Step 1 in enlarged photo), wrapped by a ... grow 20 feet tall, with a 15-foot spread of its compound blade; in cultivation, a more modest 12-foot growth is common. ... inconspicuous female flowers clustered in the lower half of the spike (spadix). In the wild, the species is threatened by unscrupulous collectors, but ...
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Canary Islands Glossary
... forms which lives and carries out its functions in a specified place. Community = See coenosis. Compound leaf = A leaf composed of two or more similar parts. Coriaceous = Like leather, leathery. Subcoriaceous ... less size than a tree and usually divided into separate stems from near the ground. Spadix = Spike of flowers closely arranged round fleshy axis and usually enclosed in a spathe. Spathe ...
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Floridata: Colocasia esculenta
... . The inflorescence, which is rarely produced in cultivated plants, is a pale green spathe and spadix, typical of the arum family. Var. aquatilis spreads by slender stolons, does not produce side ... for small fishponds and bog gardens. All parts of the taro plant contain the acrid compound, calcium oxalate, but this is destroyed by cooking. (Some of the cultivated strains apparently are ...
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