Agriculture Reference
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Flowers
Floral
Bract
Fig. 12.1.
Pineapple in
fl
orescence and
fl
ower, and fruit. The small purplish
fl
owers
open from the base of the in
fl
orescence. The fruit is composed of fused fruitlets and
the skin of sepals partially covered by a bract.
names given to terrestrial bromeliads). For example,
B. balansae
Mel. is called
gravata in Brazil and it has 80-120 fruit per plant, each weighing 6-14 g;
the skin is brown and the fl esh is white when ripe. Many other bromeliads
are cultivated as ornamentals, gathered for fi bre extraction or used in
traditional medicine.
