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A term with several meanings; historically synonymous with compound fruit (which is preferred), both defined as being fruits that develop from more than one flower (Spjut & Thieret, 1989). Spjut and Thieret (1989) traced the confusion to Lindley (1832) who reversed the meanings of aggregate and multiple as defined by de Candolle (1813) and earlier…

Stuck together. To form into groups or clusters, or to cause things to form into groups or clusters.  

Densely crowded, but not stuck together. Densely crowded but not fused. To congregate; to form a mass.  

When viable seed is produced without fertilisation having taken place.  

Producing viable seed without fertilisation having taken place.  

Group of individuals in which reproduction is almost exclusively by asexual means.  

From the upper zone of mountains, above the tree line (in Africa).  

(Affinis) akin to, near to the named taxon; not the same, but clearly related.  

The way in which sepals or petals are folded or packed in bud. The arrangement of the parts in the flower bud. The way sepals and petals are folded in bud.  

Occurring only in early summer.