The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

INFLORESCENCE

In botany, inflorescence is the mode of flowering of any species of plant, that is, the manner in which its blossoms are grouped together, and in some cases in which they successively open. The principal forms of inflorescence are the amentum, corymb, cyme, head or capitulum, fascicle, raceme, panicle, thyrsus, spike, whorl; centrifugal and centripetal are also terms applied to two kinds of inflorescence.
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