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Inflorescence position

A terminalterminal:
(adj) at the apex
inflorescenceinflorescence:
(n) the arrangement of flowers on the floral axis
is at the stem apexapex:
(n) the point farthest from the point of attachment; the tip (often pointed)
, and is characterized by the halting of further vegetativevegetative:
(adj) (1) pertaining to or to the growth of plant organs or plant parts that have nonreproductive functions, such as leaves, roots, stems, etc.; (2) concering non sexual propagules such as tubers, turions, stem fragments, root crowns, rhizomes
growth from that apexapex:
(n) the point farthest from the point of attachment; the tip (often pointed)
. An axillaryaxillary:
(adj) in, of, or produced from an axil
inflorescence arises from a leaf axilaxil:
(n) the angle between a leaf or branch and the stem or trunk from which it springs
; further vegetativevegetative:
(adj) (1) pertaining to or to the growth of plant organs or plant parts that have nonreproductive functions, such as leaves, roots, stems, etc.; (2) concering non sexual propagules such as tubers, turions, stem fragments, root crowns, rhizomes
growth from the apexapex:
(n) the point farthest from the point of attachment; the tip (often pointed)
is not halted.

This distinction may be hard to ascertain for plants with leaves in a basalbasal:
(adj) at or pertaining to the base, or point of attachment
rosette. In general, if only one leafless flowering stalk (scape) or pedunclepeduncle:
(n) the stalk of a flower cluster or inflorescence
arises from the center of the rosetterosette:
(n) a radiating cluster of leaves, usually close to the ground at the base of a plant
, the inflorescenceinflorescence:
(n) the arrangement of flowers on the floral axis
is terminalterminal:
(adj) at the apex
, whereas if two or more scapesscape:
(n) a leafless flowering stalk arising from ground level in acaulescent plants
or peduncles arise from the rosetterosette:
(n) a radiating cluster of leaves, usually close to the ground at the base of a plant
, and leaves continue to emerge, the inflorescenceinflorescence:
(n) the arrangement of flowers on the floral axis
is axillaryaxillary:
(adj) in, of, or produced from an axil
.

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terminal
axillary  
axillary
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