| The number of inflorescences per axil is determined by observing the leaf axils in the upper third of a one year old shoot, at flowering. |
| Papaya and coconut have to keep up a steady rate of growth to be able to produce flowers and fruits in every leaf axil. |
| The flowers stand normally three together, in the axil of a foliole. |
| The Common Locust has several buds under the leafstalk and one above it in the axil. |
| Each floret is in the axil of a chaffy bract and these are arranged spirally or distichously in spikelets. |
| Being eager fruit eaters they easily climb into trees, where they also sleep at night, rolled up in the axil of a bough. |
