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

From: Jonathan Ertelt jonathan.ertelt at vanderbilt.edu> on 2003.06.04 at 17:10:32(10314) >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 Without doing any research into the validity of the calim, I believe that the largest single flower on a stem actually belong to the parasitic genus Rafflesia; Rafflesia arnoldii is the species I believe. At somewhere approaching three feet across, it doesn't match the size of Amorphophallus, but it is an individual flower. Largest aroid will be tough, since all aroids (I believe) have the spadix type infloresence with lots of little flowers. Jonathan +More Jonathan Ertelt, Greenhouse Manager Department of Biological Sciences Vanderbilt University Box 35-1634, Sta. B Nashville, TN 37235 USA (615) 322-4054 jonathan.ertelt@vanderbilt.edu

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