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Flowering eye
Point of emergence from the stem of the inflorescence.
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Flower
An axis bearing one or more pistils (a pistillate flower) or one or more stamens (a staminate flower) or both (a perfect flower), often with parts to make it more functional or more attractive to pollinators (e.g. sepals, petals or rewards such as nectar). An axis bearing one or more pistils or one or more…
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Florigerous
(Of bracts) subtending the (clusters of) flowers.
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Floriferous
Bearing flowers.
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Floricane
Flowering and fruiting stem (e.g. in Rubus) (horticultural term).
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Floret
Small flower, a flower in a flower head or a flower with its bracts. (In Compositae/Asteraceae) a single flower; (In Gramineae/Poaceae), the flower plus its bracts (lemma and palea). Botanical tern1 referring to a single small flower from a cluster. A very small flower, especially one of the disk flowers of plants in the Composite…
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Florescence
Flowering, blossoming; The flowering period.
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Floral cup
The enlarged basal part of a flower bearing the calyx, corolla, stamens and gynoecium.
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Floral bract
(In Cyperaceae) a membranous scalelike structure in the spicoid-type inflorescence unit, each of which subtends a male flower comprising a single stamen only; the lowermost two floral bracts usually have a keel and are opposite. Greatly reduced leaf associated with a flower, usually at its base.
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Floral
Belonging to the flower(s). Pertaining to the blossom.
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