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Several flowers, hundreds of which comprise the inflorescence. It produces a stemless cluster of long, rigid leaves which end in a sharp point. The leaves are 20–90 centimetres (8– 35 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), [5] rarely to 125 cm (49 in), long and 0.7–2 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide, and gray-green in color.
An ephemeral plant is a plant with a very short life cycle or very short period of active growth, often one that grows only during brief periods when conditions are favorable. Several types of ephemeral plants exist. The first, spring ephemeral, refers to plants that emerge quickly in the spring and die back to their underground parts after a ...
Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3][2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
Bamboos usually have a life cycle around 40 to 80 years, varying among species. Normally, new bamboos grow up from bamboo shoots at the roots. At infrequent intervals for most species, they will start to blossom. After blossom, flowers produce fruit (called "bamboo rice" in parts of India and China). Following this, the bamboo forest dies out.
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In 1977, Flowers became a member of the final line up of T. Rex shortly before Marc Bolan's death, featuring on the band's final album, 1977's Dandy In The Underworld, and Bolan's Marc TV show.
The Venus flytrap is one of a very small group of plants that are capable of rapid movement. Rapid plant movement encompasses movement in plant structures occurring over a very short period, usually under one second. For example, the Venus flytrap closes its trap in about 100 milliseconds. [1] The traps of Utricularia are much faster, closing ...
Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die. The term is derived from Greek (mono, "single" + karpos, "fruit" or "grain"), and was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds many times during ...