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spadix::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of spadix
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On the spadix are found fertile female, fertile male, and sterile male flowers.
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The spadix is more often than not white and shorter than the spathe.
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With a wide mouth, it also reveals a pure white, club-like spadix.
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Inside the protective cover of the spathe grows a head of tiny nondescript flowers called the spadix.
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The bloom structure consists of a central, fleshy spadix, or stem, that stretches taller than a man.
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In some philodendrons, an additional region of sterile male flowers if found at the very top of the spadix.
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The part of the spadix that heats up is the sterile zone.
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The spadix has been shown to generate infrared radiation.
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The spadix is 4-10 cm long and is enclosed by the foliage.
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- The fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe
- In botany, a spadix is a type of spike inflorescence having small flowers born on a fleshy stem. Spadix are typical of the Family Araceae known as arums or aroids. ...
- A fleshy flower spike in which tiny florets are embedded.
- An inflorescence of small, clustered flowers with a fleshy axis with an accompanying bract. Example - The inflorescence of Arisaema.
- A spike with a thickened fleshy rhachis and usually enclosed or subtended by a large bract or spathe, as in many Aroids.
- A spike with a somewhat enlarged and fleshy axis. e.g. Araceae.
- (Arum Family) A club-like stalk covered with tiny "flowers".
- A flower spike with a fleshy axis and sessile flowers, usually enclosed in a spathe. The most striking example from Canoe Country is the large white flower of the Wild Calla Lily (Calla palustris). From the Latin, spadix, "palm branch."
- A thick, fleshy flower spike (usually enveloped by a spathe), as in members of the arum family (Skunk Cabbage, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, Dragon Arum, etc.).
