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serotinous
/ sĭ-rŏt′n-əs,sĕr′ə-tī′nəs /
- 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.
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By its close resemblance it may be considered the serotinous form of P. virginiana.
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Hence all the families of this legion appear to be serotinous, their simple primitive nucleus persisting for a long period.
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The serotinous cone is a gradual development, wanting in most species, rare in a few, less or more frequent in others.
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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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