Non-opening flowers

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• To: perennials@mallorn.com
• Subject: Non-opening flowers
• From: D* M*
• Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:10:48 -0600
• References: <20000518082243.12697.qmail@hotmail.com>

>Some plants can in fact produce seeds without the flowers ever 
>opening. Some of the violets, for example, do this.


For those of you planning an appearance on "Jeopardy" or looking for 
a game-busing score in Scrabble, the technical term for this is 
cleistogamy, literally "hidden-sex cells".

-- 
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com


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