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THE habit of flowering from buds borne upon the main branches and trunk, known as cauli-flory, is well developed in many tropical genera. Couropita, Napoleona, Artocarpus and Parmentiera are well known examples. In Great Britain it is shown well by the Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum L.), often grown in cultivation. In 1928 Prof. J. McLean Thompson began an intensive study of this southern European example of cauliflory and also of the carob (Geratonia siliqua L.). As a result a very interesting paper on cauliflory in the carob, intended for the Publications of the Hartley Laboratories in 1941, has been issued instead provisionally in typescript, with a comprehensive series of photographic illustrations and diagrams.
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A MODERN STUDY OF CAULIFLORY. Nature 151, 481–482 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151481a0
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