What is "flowerheads"

Usage examples of "flowerheads".

Even after the flowerheads have buried themselves in the ground they continue, as will hereafter be shown, to circumnutate.

We therefore protected some flowerheads, similarly secured to sticks, from the light, and although some of them rotted, many of their subpeduncles turned very slowly from their reversed or from their horizontal positions, so as to stand in the normal manner parallel to the upper part of the main peduncle.

The flowerheads are able to bury themselves in common garden mould, and easily in sand or in fine sifted cinders packed rather closely.

Considering that the flowerheads are very light, that the peduncles are long, thin, and flexible, and that they arise from flexible branches, it is incredible that an object as blunt as one of these flowerheads could penetrate the ground by means of the growing force of the peduncle, unless it were aided by the rocking movement.

The capsules and flowerheads of some plants are bowed downwards through geotropism, and they then bury themselves in the earth for the protection and slow maturation of the seeds.