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== Flowers and Inflorescences == | == Flowers and Inflorescences == | ||
[[file:Puya raimondii hábito.jpg|thumb]] | [[file:Puya raimondii hábito.jpg|thumb]] | ||
Like all other monocotyledonous plants Bromeliads always have trifoliate flowers. That indi-cates that the number of all organs of the plant is divisible by three. That is: Three sepals, three petals, six stamens and the ovary, consisting of three carpels. Often the signaling to attract potential pollinators is increased by very decorative bracts. Bromeliads predominantly have male and female flower organs combined in one flower. Only a small number of species produce unisexual flowers. They are called dioecious, meaning the whole plants are either male or female (f. e. the taxa ''Androlepis'', ''Hechtia'' and some species of ''Catopsis'' and ''Aechmea''). Scent occurs regrettably seldom in Bromeliads. The inflorescences are plain or compound racemes or panicles shaped very differently. Whereas the taxon ''Neoregelia'' builds his flowers sunken deeply in the cistern, sometimes even hard to spot, the inflorescence of ''Puya raimondii'' with his thousands of individual flowers may be higher than 8 (!) meters. This species has, by the by, made it’s way into the “Guinness book of records” as the plant with the highest inflorescence in the world. | |||
== Fruits and Seeds == | |||