Re: Non-opening flowers
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Non-opening flowers
- From: B* C*
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 21:54:58 EDT
Thanks, Don. I knew it, I just couldn't spell it, and strangely enough my
spell checker wasn't familiar with it either.
Bob Campbell
>From: Don Martinson <llmen@execpc.com>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Non-opening flowers
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:10:48 -0600
>
>>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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