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

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?
>

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