Opening to a pale yellow after anthesis, the spikes lose their flowers with age and swell to up to high and wide, with up to 80 linear.
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Later the leaves become reflexed . ovaries are black-green ( but flushed with red in the Levant ) in anthesis, but green when younger or following anthesis.
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Later the leaves become reflexed . ovaries are black-green ( but flushed with red in the Levant ) in anthesis, but green when younger or following anthesis.
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Known as anthesis, this process sweeps through the inflorescence from bottom to top over a period of days, creating the effect of a cream inflorescence that progressively turns bright orange.
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Anthesis of flowers is sequential within an inflorescence, so when the style and perianth are different colours, the result is a striking colour change that gradually sweeps along the inflorescence.
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Just before anthesis, the anthers release their pollen, depositing it onto the stigma, which in many cases has an enlarged fleshy area specifically for the deposition of its own pollen.
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At anthesis, both the style-end and the anthers are trapped within the limb, so that when the anthers release their pollen, the pollen adheres to the style-end.
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After male anthesis, the males will go off and find another philodendron undergoing female anthesis, so will pollinate the female flowers with the pollen it had collected from its previous night of mating.
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After male anthesis, the males will go off and find another philodendron undergoing female anthesis, so will pollinate the female flowers with the pollen it had collected from its previous night of mating.
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Appearing from October to December ( late spring ), the flowers occur in dome-shaped style of which is initially enclosed within the limb of the perianth, but breaks free at anthesis.
