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Synonyms: Peduncle
     
  Leafless unbranched flower stalk with one flower growing directly from the ground as in a tulip, peduncle.  
     
In botany, scapes are flowering stems (peduncles), usually leafless, rising from the crown or roots of a plant or from a bulb or basal rosette at ground level with one flower.

Broadly speaking the term scape is used to indicate any stem which supports the flowers, buds, and seed pods, and indicate a wide number of quite different flowering stem structures and inflorescences, some scapes show scales, foliaceous bracts and sometimes even branches, and also scapes can have a single flower or many flowers, depending on the species.
 
     

 

 

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