inflorescence

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What many people mistake for a single enormous flower is actually an inflorescence — a structure made up of hundreds of tiny flowers at the base.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025

A true titan with the largest inflorescence on Earth it radiates an intoxicating perfume that has been described as a blend of dead fish, rotting cabbage and garlic.

From Salon • May 27, 2025

Its big pink inflorescence can last half a year.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Roadside weeds like wild mustard and Queen Anne’s lace, tendrils of palm inflorescence and carnivorous cobra lilies have all found a place in her work.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2020

Caroliniàna, Gray, the plant of the Northern States, has more erect branches, rather panicled inflorescence with at length scattered flowers, and very acute or acuminate calyx-lobes.—Salt marshes along the coast, from Lab. to Tex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa