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.