caulifloryn.
/ˈkɔːlɪflɔːri/ Botany.
The production of flowers directly from the trunk or branches.
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1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. iv. 336 In cauliflory the flowers appear sometimes only on main stems, sometimes only on branches, sometimes, and this is most usual, on both main stems and branches alike.
1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. iv. 336 In constantly humid tropic forests cauliflory, that is to say, the formation of flowers on old wood, is not rare.
1908 W. H. Lang Strasburger's Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 3) 625 The flowers are borne on the main stem or the older branches, and arise from dormant axillary buds (cauliflory).
1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest iv. 54 Many rain-forest trees..bear their flowers directly on the trunk or larger branches... This unusual habit, known as cauliflory, is highly characteristic of the Tropical Rain forest.
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