fructification

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In New Zealand the plant is different, being a single stem from six to ten inches high: its apex, when in a state of fructification, resembles the club-headed bulrush in miniature.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by Various

The fructification forms in the substance of the tips of the frond: the rough dots mark the places where the conceptacles open.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

A heavy rainfall while the trees are in flower will seriously damage the plants by washing away the pollen and thus preventing fructification.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Pepper, Charles M.

This preservation of parts of fructification, and the pollen of coniferae, displays the art with which nature embalms her relics.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

With these and reasonable perseverance the structure of the flowers and fructification of most phanerogamous plants and Ferns can be made out.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa