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In botany, a peduncle is a stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower, or, after fecundation, an infructescence or a solitary fruit. The peduncle sometimes has bracts (a type of cataphyll) at nodes. The main axis of an inflorescence above the peduncle is the rachis, which hosts flowers (as opposed to directly on the peduncle). [1 ...
Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed; Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body Peduncle (arthropods), the base segments of an antenna; Caudal peduncle, in fish, the narrow part of the body to which the tail attaches
Other plants have the bracts subtend the pedicel or peduncle of single flowers. Metatopic placement of bracts include: When the bract is attached to the stem holding the flower (the pedicel or peduncle), it is said to be recaulescent ; sometimes these bracts or bracteoles are highly modified and appear to be appendages of the flower calyx.
It is an example of a spring ephemeral, a plant whose life-cycle is synchronized with that of the deciduous woodland which it favours. White trillium often occurs in dense drifts of many individuals. The G. Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area in the Blue Ridge Mountains is renowned for an extensive stand of white trillium that blooms each ...
The word scape (Latin scapus, from Greek σκαΎ¶πος), as used in botany, is fairly vague and arbitrary; various sources provide divergent definitions.Some older usages simply amount to a stem or stalk in general, [3] but modern formal usage tends to favour the likes of "A long flower stalk rising directly from the root or rhizome", [3] or "a long, naked, or nearly naked, peduncle, rising ...
Node: A point of attachment of a leaf or a twig on the stem in seed plants. A node is a very small growth zone. Pedicel: Stems that serve as the stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence or infrutescence. Peduncle: A stem that supports an inflorescence or a solitary flower. Prickle: A sharpened extension of the stem's outer layers, e.g ...
For example, the "flower" of the well known Anthurium spp. is a typical spadix with a large colorful spathe. [ 1 ] In this type of inflorescence , peduncle is thick, long and fleshy, having small sessile unisexual flowers covered with one or more large green or colourful bracts (spathe).
Parts of plant stem Euonymus alata, an example of alate stems Saraca cauliflora, an example of cauliflora Sciadopitys verticillata, an example of a verticillate plant. Accessory buds – an embryonic shoot occurring above or to the side of an axillary bud; also known as supernumerary bud. Acrocarpous – produced at the end of a branch.