| Four of the five bracts that enclose and protect the plant's spathe and spadix now have fallen. |
| Always bitterly exuberant, you see life as a pink spathe swathing a yellow spadix. |
| At the time of efflorescence the spadix is cut off and the pithy stem is tapped. |
| The perfect bloom was not expected because visitors had hurled stones at the flower, bruising the spadix. |
| In the male zone, the mature spadix is lined with longitudinal resiniferous canals located at the base of the stamens. |
| The fruit is composed of a mass of berries on a spadix, the fleshy central spike first seen in the flower. |
