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(New page: A plant that dies after blooming once. Example: ''Caryota urens'' is monocarpic.)
 
 
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A plant that dies after blooming once.  Example:  ''Caryota urens'' is monocarpic.
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A plant that dies after blooming once.  A similar term in palm literature is "hapaxanthic" which is also used to describe plants with one flowering event, the completion of which triggers death.  In most cases there is a period of several years between the emergence of the first flowers and the setting of the last fruit.  Example:  ''[[Caryota urens]]'' is monocarpic.
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Latest revision as of 22:27, 19 June 2008

A plant that dies after blooming once. A similar term in palm literature is "hapaxanthic" which is also used to describe plants with one flowering event, the completion of which triggers death. In most cases there is a period of several years between the emergence of the first flowers and the setting of the last fruit. Example: Caryota urens is monocarpic.