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Do bamboo plant shows gregarious flowering?


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Gregarious flowering:

  1. It is a phenomenon where all populations of a particular species flower all at once, regardless of location.
  2. It is also known as mass flowering or synchronous blooming.
  3. Example- bamboo, neelakurinji plant.

Gregarious flowering in bamboo:

  1. Gregarious flowering can happen at intervals between 60 to 130 years for most bamboo species.
  2. Such a cycle is genetically pre-programmed into each species.

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