Some Plants Grow for a Long Time to Flower Only Once — VOA Learning English
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Some plants, known as flowering annuals, bloom without stop before dying at the end of the year or season.
Other flowering plants, known as perennials, return every year. They can bloom all season, with a lot of blossoms at first followed by additional flowers from time to time. Sometimes it is a limited show that can last as little as two weeks.
Biennials flower only in their second year before dying.
Monocarpic plants
But there is another group of plants called monocarpics. Their name comes from the Greek words for “single,” mono, and “fruit,” carpos. Monocarpics spend their whole lives growing in size only to produce a single bloom before dying.
Some monocarpic plants have a following among a…
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