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Without using any reference material (no internet, books, etc.), explain florescence in detail.

@khird @louisrcouture

Hint: There are no typos or misspellings in my toot.

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@Pat are you cheating or you are mocking the question lol

@louisrcouture

I don't understand your comment/question.

It's just a fun quiz.

@Pat oh ok lol it’s because I saw the test hashtag and that usually means exam where I live

@louisrcouture @khird

It's not a school exam question that I need help with or anything like that. I just recently discovered something new to me and thought it would be amusing.

@louisrcouture @khird

Florescence is a more general form of inflorescence.

Here's an except from wikipedia... "An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.[1] Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed. The modifications can involve the length and the nature of the internodes and the phyllotaxis, as well as variations in the proportions, compressions, swellings, adnations, connations and reduction of main and secondary axes. One can also define an inflorescence as the reproductive portion of a plant that bears a cluster of flowers in a specific pattern."

I stumbled upon the word "inflorescence" while doing some etymological research. When I looked it up and read the definition, I still didn't understand. I thought, "are they talking about glowing flowers?"

It was so funny I decided to put out this trick question. The image in this toot is particularly misleading. :)

@khird - You answered this pretty much the same way I would have. I was hoping for an answer like that. I hope I didn't freak you out!

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