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- noun Plural form of
raceme .
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Examples
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Flowers are yellow, and all grow in racemes or in clusters along stem.
Flower Stories 1903
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Flowers: Crossandra's showy salmon-pink to yellow or orange-red flowers in terminal racemes bloom atop a shrub of glossy green leaves.
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Flowers: The dwarf poinciana blooms in orange-red and yellow flowers with long, protruding red stamens that appear throughout the year, borne on long stalks in terminal racemes.
Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Flowers: Croton produces narrow terminal racemes of insignificant white flowers.
Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Flowers: The dwarf poinciana blooms in orange-red and yellow flowers with long, protruding red stamens that appear throughout the year, borne on long stalks in terminal racemes.
Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Flowers: Croton produces narrow terminal racemes of insignificant white flowers.
Ponytail palm, croton and dwarf poinciana: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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Flowers: Crossandra's showy salmon-pink to yellow or orange-red flowers in terminal racemes bloom atop a shrub of glossy green leaves.
Crossandra, mango and jellybean plant: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico 2009
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I grow the Japanese Wisteria floribunda, as I prefer the greater length of the racemes, but the Chinese W sinensis is good for this slightly earlier awakening.
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Flowers racemes larger and fall color of this cultivar are superior to that of the species.
SWEETSPIRE 'HENRY'S GARNET' Pooky 2009
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Features fragrant, tiny white flowers borne in cylindrical, drooping racemes 3-6 long which cover the shrub with bloom in early summer.
SWEETSPIRE 'HENRY'S GARNET' Pooky 2009
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