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serotinous

/ sĭ-rŏtn-əs,sĕr′ə-tīnəs /

  1. Late in developing, opening, or blooming. For example, serotinous pine cones may persist unopened on the tree for years and only burst open during a forest fire. Serotinous flowers on trees develop only after the tree has produced leaves.


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In the Insignes the cone is oblique, persistent and serotinous, and the spring-shoot is multinodal.

By its close resemblance it may be considered the serotinous form of P. virginiana.

Hence all the families of this legion appear to be serotinous, their simple primitive nucleus persisting for a long period.

The serotinous cone is a gradual development, wanting in most species, rare in a few, less or more frequent in others.

With all serotinous species that I have seen, some of the trees open their cones at maturity, others at indefinite intervals.

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