筒状花
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Meanings
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tubular flower; disk floret
Botanical term for the small, tube-shaped individual flowers that make up the central disk of a composite flower head (e.g., in sunflowers or daisies). Compare with 管状花 (かんじょうか), a synonym.
See also: 管状花 (かんじょうか)
Many tubular flowers are clustered in the center of a sunflower.
In Asteraceae plants, two types of florets can be seen: tubular flowers and ray flowers.