Can one pollen fertilize inflorescence?

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Inflorescence:
It is the arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
Fertilization can be defined as the fusion of the pollen(haploid) and the ovum(haploid) to form a diploid zygote.
One pollen can fertilize only one ovule thereby leading to the formation of one seed.
Therefore, it can be said that one pollen cannot fertilize inflorescence.

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