Elephant ear or ape flower (Xanthosoma roseum) with a white spadix partially surrounded by a green-, rose-, and cream-colored spathe

In botany, a spadix (pl. spadices) is a type of spike: an inflorescence with small flowers crowded on a thickened, fleshy axis. The term is applied to certain monocotyledons, especially members of the family Araceae. In these flower heads there is typically a spathe, a large, usually showy and solitary, bract that either subtends (lies just below) or partially encloses the spadix. The "flower" of the anthurium is a typical spadix with a large colorful spathe. Download high resolution version (600x932, 136 KB)Elephant ear or ape (Xanthosoma roseum) flower photographed by Eric Guinther on Maui, Hawaii and released under the GNU Free Documentation License. ... Download high resolution version (600x932, 136 KB)Elephant ear or ape (Xanthosoma roseum) flower photographed by Eric Guinther on Maui, Hawaii and released under the GNU Free Documentation License. ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... This inflorescence of the terrestrial orchid Spathoglottis plicata is a typical raceme. ... An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Genera See text The arums comprise the Family Araceae (including the numerous aroids subfamily): monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. ... Toothed bracts on Rhinanthus minor In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, from the axil of which a flower or flower stalk arises; or a bract may be any leaf associated with an inflorescence. ... Species See text Anthurium is a large genus of about 600 species from tropical America belonging to the Arum family (Araceae). ...

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