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

From: piaba piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2003.06.04 at 18:59:00(10317)
> If one wants to get all technical-like, the
> largest
> inflorescence probably belongs to the Talipot palm,
+More
> Corypha
> umbraculifera - but it doesn't look like just one
> flower to us non
> technical people - it looks like a cluster of
> flowers - a 30 foot
> tall cluster of flowers.
i think Am. titanum is the largest UNBRANCHED
inflorescence in the world, whereas the above
mentioned palm has the largest BRANCHED inflorescence.
i have never seen such palm but that's what i recall
reading.
tsuh yang
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