Ear (botany)

The term spike called in botany noted below inflorescence type.

Construction

An ear ( Spica ) is an unbranched inflorescence with a stretched main axis, the rachis ( the rachis spicae ). If this main axis thickened fleshy, one speaks of a piston ( spadix ). The individual flowers are sessile with an ear of corn on the spindle. In most ears the lowest flowers bloom on the first ( Basitonie ).

Ears of corn

The rachis of the narrow- wool grass

Modifications from the basic plan

Chance of transitional forms occur on the grape, which is characterized by stalked flowers. To find approximately in the genre of rotation Wurzen to the lower flowers indistinctly formed flower stalks.

With sweet and sour grass spikelets sit in place of the individual flowers.

262420
de